The more engaging and interesting posts will naturally float to the top

This is not true. We have a decade of evidence showing that what floats to the top is the easiest to digest content - meme images.

I’m sure you’re noticing, you don’t have many people who agree with you.

Yep. Most people are unintelligent and thus love their low-quality content. Thankfully, the Lemmy devs decided to build a filter that's coming with the next update.