I’m a nurse and reddit has a nursing subreddit I like to contribute to because they give good advice regarding my job, how to deal with arrogant doctors, bitchy coworkers… they know things a regular user in a generic channel couldn’t answer, because they don’t know the job.
I think asking in a channel like this for nursing advice doesn’t make much sense, because this is not a nursing specific channel.
Something similar happens to my workplace questions: there is an antiwork lemmy, but the one in reddit is much larger and they also have a work community, and so far I haven’t found anything like that on lemmy.
Another issue is size: For some problems, like violence in the hospital I need speedy advice and I get that faster when the communities are larger. Reddit is larger.
Simply replying ‘we don’t monetize’ while true and one reason why I turned to lemmy and don’t use reddit as much now, is not convincing enough for my particular case.
Honestly, it’s cool that you’re doing what you can to make the world a better place, and that matters more than anything. I do not support Reddit’s politics and policies and I am able to avoid it completely. I feel that is a net positive in the world. You’re a nurse. Your job is to help people. If minimizing your Reddit usage helps to reduce Reddit’s ad revenue, but using it a little bit still helps you be a better or happier or more sane nurse, then it sounds like that’s a good thing. Maybe keep your eyes peeled for alternate growing communities, but I think you’re already pretty cool for using Reddit less, but still using it when it helps you make the world a better place in other aspects of your life.