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This is honestly a great observation, I've noticed on those rare times I need to search for answers to specific questions on reddit, posts have fewer and generally less thorough/helpful comments. The biggest downside to reddit imploding has been the decrease in "real" posts and interactions when you're trying to find genuine discussions or answers to niche questions.
That's the biggest reason I still think Lemmy has a ways to go, there's not really an efficient way for all these posts to be search-indexed for engines like Google, DDG, etc. If that problem can somehow be solved, it'd do wonders for Lemmy's discoverability.
Like you said, there's definitely flaws to this platform, and by nature of being a community center it's likely to be targeted for corporate interests, but the architecture of this Federated platform makes it much easier to keep power in the hands of the community and keep things genuine and interesting over here. I'm just glad I have a place to scroll through where people's comments are longer than a few words, and people seem genuinely interested in interacting.