People on lemmy are the same fuckwad assholes you meet on reddit. It’s not like being a better person is enforced on the lemmyverse outside of a couple of instances like hexbear and lemmygrad. idk maybe it’s me but it’s like why bother, why not just use reddit if you’re going to be a shitty person or overall debate pervert? Weird shit.
Corporate social media sites are always going to follow a trajectory from vaguely progressive, to “free speech” maximizing, to profit maximizing, to state dept goons on the board, with the only off ramp being if the site implodes before it gets successful enough for the goons to notice. They’re always going to wind up as a nazi bar with pro-capitalist, pro-imperialist bias.
Decentralized sites instead follow some rando admin’s biases. Are the admin’s politics any good? Probably not, most people have shit politics. But a cross section of total randos is still a better diversity of political thought than the repeated systematic trimming that corporate sites have.