unfortunately, not being on board with new things is kind of a key defining trait of conservatism, so they're aren't many on here.

I've limited my Reddit usage purely to subreddits that I can't find a reasonable substitution for. Lemmy is small, a bit complicated to get at first, so naturally there's going to be some communities that just aren't going to make it here. For me really, I go back to participate in r/ChangeMyView and r/AskTransgender.

The first to help provide a voice for trans folk in the seemingly ceaseless threads about trans people, and the second (more important one) to hopefully provide advice or information to people who're just trying to figure things out. It's a tiny little way I can give back and hopefully help at least one person here and there, so I'm not going to give that up just because Reddit itself has shit the bed.

Although there are a lot more liberals than there are conservatives in this site and much of Lemmy, reasonable people making disagreeable opinions in good faith is allowed here. However, a conservative argument often gets replied to by several people so I can totally understand that it takes patience for a conservative to reply to everything calmly.

In any discussion, it's important to know where the boundaries are. When things get too far out of hand or away from the initial topic, it's time to drop it before getting too heated.