Agreed! I loved communities like AITA, relationship advice, etc... on Reddit.

Lemmy is still in that early link aggregator stage, Reddit was like this too for awhile.

as the saying goes, be the change you wish to see...

You may want to check out tildes.net -- great community, totally text focused experience. I find that tildes complements lemmy well, and end up on both (in addition to a few other sites) to get a well rounded aggregation/discussion experience.

Best of redditor updates was my favorite of these, even if most of them were probably made up.

You'll probably need to wait a bit for those, or else start one.

People were willing to write that kind of stuff on Reddit because they knew people would see it. Possibility of attention incentivizes people to put the work in.

Here...not so much. Less incentive to put effort into big text posts without more people. Lemmy's less than perfect sorting for Hot or Active is helping much either.

That's kind of how Reddit was at first, too. All of this will take shape eventually it's just not here quite yet.