

I’m new to this as well, I just chose this instance to switch to (also from lemm.ee) because I’m queer and knew this instance did a good job keeping out assholes.
In general I think most instances on here are leftist or at least left-leaning. The general recommendation for lemm.ee users is currently lemmy.zip, if you want a dedicated political instance I only know of the anarchist lemmy.dbzer0.com (though they are too defensive of genAI for my taste) and the European Federalist feddit.org.
This thread has more recommendations by a more experienced user
It heavily depends on the artist. There are also a lot of producers who lean into her robotic nature (like Sasakure.uk), which prevents the squeaky noises that usually occur at higher notes with more normal tuning, and others who have really good realistic tuning (like Mitchie M) who manage to make her sound like a normal singer