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I applaud your optimism. And you're right. The design of the fediverse encourages these properties. But there are also other dynamics at play.
I wouldn't describe Lemmy as an intellectual place. It's more a cross-sectional take on society. It's a diverse place of common folks, a few nerds, people posting the news, sharing memes or asking questions...
It depends a bit on the specific community. Some have nice people and active conversation, some don't. Especially niche topics are a mixed bag. We're just 50.000 active users so that means for some smaller hobbies you can't really get a conversation going. But you included some broad topics. I'm sure some of them work well here.
[email protected] regularly has good posts. Debate and politics work very well all across the platform... I'm not really an expert on the communities here, I hope other people can give good recommendations. Art, literature and ecology also have healthy communities. Sometimes entire instaces dedicated to it.
I think if you're willing to share this place with a diverse group of people, you can get happy here.