Important distinction: Lemmy as a software project is not inherently left wing, but the core devs and admins are indeed communists. Fascists are going to use the source code either way, but those core devs and admins control the most active instances and set major cultural norms on those instances. They also control which instances get blocked from the flagships. And if they get popular enough that corporations attempt to coop their projects, they will be able to resist that cooption on a principled basis.

I also think there’s potential to add features which make the platform more difficult to monetize and more useful for its users in the context of self-organization