is lemmy as a platform particularly focused on lgbtq+
Yes, in my experience. Which is fine, but as you said finding interesting communities (that are active) is a bit of a challenge.
For me it is the American News that is overwhelming and hard to filter out completely without filtering out everything.
DDG it to get a file, else it is quite simple to generate and customize your own. I do it a bit different from the “official” way, but whatever works, very flexible.
Sure. Imma keep using my jet though.