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TBH lemmy is the most comfortable social media for me, and yet I recognize that it is comfortable precisely because it's mostly a leftist echo chamber (with a sprinkling of liberals). The political opinion of the majority of people (that is, conformism/lack of opinion) is not represented here at all, neither is the far-right (and I'm thankful for both).
It's worth noting that Lemmy has plenty of different instances where opinion varies widely, including heavily liberal ones. I also don't believe in free speech absolutism because some views, like fascism, are objectively harmful. The way I look at it is the real issue with echo chambers comes from people becoming divorced from reality because they only interact with people who hold identical views. I don't see this being a major problem on Lemmy instances I frequent.