Nope. It’s because it was originally made to be a echo chamber for Communists. The devs are open communist

That's just wrong. Totally ahistorical.

There's a good chunk of the rest of the fediverse that's more right leaning, for the most part they've actively avoided Lemmy because Lemmy was actively hostile to any kind of wrongthink. It was one of the things that really limited it's growth because you could only be on Lemmy if you believed exactly what you were told to believe.

I stayed on the threadiverse through lotide despite it all, and despite having some pretty limited takes, I quickly found myself banned or defederated from many instances. To this day I don't participate on those instances because I'm not welcome. Wolfballs and exploding-heads came to exist, but were similarly rejected and even now the very first thing to be done by many instances is defederating from those instances.

I've heard through the grapevine that some of the people who run fediverse instances are considering starting Lemmy instances now that the platform is growing.

Most smart right wing people (not me obviously), long ago gave up trying to discuss anything important with the left.

It’s not productive, and everyone that I know has just gone to more private chats and channels and don’t even have social media accounts.

You get banned enough times for saying something reasonable, or constantly get called a nazi or something ridiculous and you just stop using those places to talk.

The separation and division has already happened. For anyone hoping to have a discussion with anyone who has different opinions than you do, that train has left the station.

There are bots, lots of them (I’m sure from the left and the right) and that’s it’s own problem. But I doubt we will ever see a place where people can just disagree anymore.

No one seems to have the balls to let these conversations happen on either side.

I think that Lemmy leans left because people on the right tend to be occupied with more productive activities in their life, such as work, family, or hobbies.

The left-leaning Lemmy tends to be people who haven't gotten out and touched grass in a while, mainly because it is composed of former redditors.

That's reaching a quite a bit. Reddit itself is very left leaning. Pair that with the fact that the (probably few) ring wing people leaving Twitter recently might not be interested in a forum style platform such as Lemmy.

My guess is that the number of right leaning people joined Lemmy in this last wave of new accounts was small in comparison to the left leaning ones.