I used to have an account there and this wasn't my experience, and I used to be a capitalist back then. I mainly quit because there was nothing to do there, this was before lemmy gained an actual userbase following the reddit api situation when the most popular post on the whole network had one hundred upvotes and eight comments or something.

You'll be fine if you don't involve yourself with the political communities, I don't see why you would considering there still doesn't seem to be much activity there.