From the perspective of someone who has been on Lemmy for a few years now, I'll say that the amount of content here has become large enough for me to use Lemmy as a "daily driver" account. I don't miss out on important news or updates by using Lemmy instead of Reddit...in fact it often feels quite the opposite
It's mostly fine, but sometimes I still miss stuff. For example, I haven't seen anything on the Spanish ski lift incident on here (it's probably somewhere), but I bet that would have popped up for me on Reddit.
(And I think I have done a pretty good job of curating my experience here)
Hard agree. I see the same usernames over here also so I've can actually foster a conversation with people. Reminds me of when Reddit communities were good and not controlled by the corporations.