For me tl;dr is mainly useful for two things:
to let me evaluate whether I think the post is interesting enough, or contains enough new information for me to be worth reading
to jog my memory when I come back to a post a while after I have read it, and am no longer sure what it is about/what its main points are
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For me tl;dr is mainly useful for two things:
to let me evaluate whether I think the post is interesting enough, or contains enough new information for me to be worth reading
to jog my memory when I come back to a post a while after I have read it, and am no longer sure what it is about/what its main points are