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Ooh, I actually know this, and it's kinda hilarious. Lemmy tends to trend more techy, with a lot of emphasis on Linux communities. Furries are generalized as being stereotypically prevalent in IT, with a general joke of a plane crash full of furries could cripple an IT sector. Over 50% of furries are in STEM fields, with 28% of those surveyed in IT, 12% in science, and 12% in engineering (these numbers are from 2011, and a later survey was done in 2019, but I haven't been able to find results).
Additionally, Lemmy tends to lean left politically, with a lot of emphasis on communities that are for trans rights, such as servers like blahaj.zone. Furries lean very much left politically socially, though they tend to skew right economically (numbers from 2013).
In short, furries are here because Lemmy matches their interests beyond the furry community. Aside from their love of dog dicks, you'd likely get along pretty well with them.
I'd probably have as hard a time getting over the dog-dick thing as they seem to lol. If animal sex (simulated or otherwise) is a core part of someone's personality, I don't think we're gonna get along, and I'm far from upset about that. I also don't think it's doing any good for LGBTQ+ acceptance to be associated with.
LGBTQ+ acceptance isn't about throwing specific people under the bus in order to win the favor of bigots. That's what the right-wing gays are doing when they speak out against trans people, as if being gay is fine but being trans is a bridge too far. As for kinkshaming just read up on anything regarding keeping kink out of pride. I don't share everyone else's kinks either but I fully support their right to have them.
While a slight-to-decent majority of furries appear to be in the LGBTQ+ community (at least according to Wikipedia), I'd hope that no one would say "Because you're accepting of the LGBTQ+ community, even if you're straight and don't identify as part of that community, you must be part of the furry community." Just because there's LGBTQ+ people into odd kinks like bondage, humiliation, sounding, etc., there's no reason you would have to be interested in those things to be supportive of the LGBTQ+ community. Same thing with furries.