I'm with you, I miss it too. Lemmy and it's instances confuse me, but I'm doing my part by doing my best at avoiding Reddit since I'm strictly a 3rd party app mobile user.
We will wait it out together and hope it gets better (I'm so tired of seeing crap about Meta and Threads).
Adam Ruins Everything explains it nicely; it really needs to be the responsibility of the business to pay their workforce. https://youtu.be/q_vivC7c_1k