I could use someone to fix my printer.

to share and learn more

I joined for the same reason as you, I grew up in an environment where I looked like the odd one out cos I talked about what most people didn't understand and this made me stay indoors on my own, and online is the only where I get to interact with people that have the same goal as me and dim very fortunate to have met some of them irl.

I find myself losing interest in online social networks because none of them seem to have any focus other than engagement-farming. I don't find them particularly good anymore for coming together with people who share my interests. I think it's something that could be rediscovered online.

Mostly for networking and meeting new people

Sometimes we look for people with whom to talk about different topics. For example: Bitcoin, aliens, if the earth is flat, what is there in Antarctica. I enter other topics that your close friends they do not try

I started using alternative social media basically as an act of anti-Big Tech activism. I really never enjoyed social media or used it much (except for reddit). When all the major platforms became openly partisan censorship outlets, I wanted to help their alternatives succeed.

Stacker News is the only platform I would use purely for my own enjoyment. I still hop on nostr and Minds in my effort to help Big Tech alternatives succeed, but they pail in comparison to SN for engagement quality.