It could be useful as distraction.

He is trying not to shit.

No shit,

posting.

I think the air star’s becoming hot again.

I have only see the ones on r/all and I once saw a post on AITA, where it was not obvious whos fault it was. The rest were just, as you said, people looking for validation.

This is really something the proprietary alternatives lack behind. I just digg the option to be able to follow a lemmy community from my mastodon account on my phone.