I still see and experience blind down voting and people missing each other's points, but much less than on Reddit. Overall I'm more aligned with the viewpoints shared here, especially because the vibe on the other site has really changed a lot after over 10 years.
I definitely use lemmy a lot less for mindless scrolling, due to the lack of content, which is great to be honest.
I spend more time researching stuff through articles, forums, YouTube, and yes, also the other site still when it's through specific Google searches.
I still see way more US centric content than I'd like but there's definitely a good European presence, and it's also on me because I'm still browsing basically the whole unfiltered feed at this point.
Drinking weizen makes me feel like I've had drink and food at the same time, so rich.