You know when you needed an answer to something and wanted the opinion of the masses. You could search “[how to topic] reddit” or filter with “site:reddit.com”.
So what now? Could i still do “best table Lemmy” or “how to do this Lemmy”?
This was my favorite use of reddit where you could get a bunch of answers for different topics.
I think the usefulness of forums is going to decline with the rise of the LLMs - like how can you trust the comments about a product are real and not just generated from some LLM? We recently saw GPT bots start to be used heavily on some subreddits and they are much harder to distinguish than previous generations of bots.
We need a Blade Runner.