I’ve been on lemmy since before it even federated, so I’m happy with the left-wing political and tech focused topics of discussion available.
That said, I don’t think it’s unreasonable to want to get away from monolithic social media and also want the sort of “non-political” content they are used to getting. There’s no reason they can’t do both, and I think we should encourage federated social media and direct people away from corporate social media at every opportunity. If people can comfortably get their memes and news and hobby discussions on the fediverse, that’s only a good thing. Ownership of that needs to be taken away from Reddit.
I think I sympathize completely. I find even people I ostensibly agree with on almost everything to sometimes be obnoxious. I think different people are looking for different things when it comes to using these platforms and this sometimes leads to poor results.