I get what you're saying, and even partially agree.

But at the same time, if I'm looking for a social media/content aggregation platform, and I have to choose between "idealistic vision, small and problematic community, low quantity and low quality content" vs "corporate/capitalist asshole vision, large and mediocre community, variable quality and quantity content" the latter is going to win every time, based on the fact that there is actually at least some content there that's worth my time.

So far with Lemmy, the only thing I get here is memes...and news that I am already getting from 4 other sources first. None of my niche Reddit communities have any real presence here, so my visits are brief and unsatisfying.