“As a straight member of a gay band, I totally didn’t get the point of the gay song I wrote for my gay band”

Yes, now, anyway…

I don’t think that getting driven out of this party by bigots counts as “moving in the right direction“.

Did he actually “move” in any direction, though?

Don’t be too impressed. He still a Republican.

As others have said, the only option available currently is to leave the instance and re-create your beloved communities elsewhere. The Lemmy.ml Admins also happen to be the ones actively developing the Lemmy code base, and they’re not gonna change because they feel entitled to do whatever they want, and technically, they can because they run the instance.

My best advice is to move on from the instance.