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, removed 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.
My time on Reddit has dropped substantially since I can’t use third-party apps for it anymore, but I still login occasionally for the niche communities that don’t exist here, just like you do.
Use whatever website or app you want and don’t worry about what some nerds on the internet might think about it.
You probably can still access third-party apps by being a mod. That works for me (with Boost) when the patching method made it unable to login recently.
I did try the revanced reddit app but the stutters make it unbearable to use.