I am not that leftist.

Lemmy is more centrist than Reddit

(other than the usual issues) Reddit was hated by the general populace because it was too right wing and it was hated by right-wingers for not being right wing enough

Lemmy is still new and hasn’t gained a large population as of yet, but it’s already still far more representative than Reddit ever was

Agreed. It's sad. I'd prefer to have a good balance but you get what you get.

I feel like there's a lot more queer focused instances available. Tbh that would most likely make it easier for queer people, and those more accepting of them, to easily and comfortably move to an instance.

ALSO, makes it that much easier to get banned if you're even slightly conservative imo. Imo we won't see many conservatives until we get a Steven Crowder or Daily Wire Instance.

Just speculating here. And building off some half-remembered On The Media pieces. But as (for any number of reasons) the faith in a social platform collapses (and often the safeguards against toxic stuff go down too, a la Twitter), people with a low tolerance for that shit are likeliest to bail and the 'call people the N word on Xbox' folks are likeliest to stay behind. People who could watch what Reddit did and stay behind aren't bad, I'm not saying that, but their tolerance for unethical stuff is way higher than the tolerance of those who decided to find a new home. Self-selection, ya know.

I kind of disagree. From a European perspective, both American left and American right are just far right totalitarian genocidal lunatics.

But there are more people here who don't push their crazy political agendas, that's true.