I was referring to the community browser which lets you see all available communities. But yeah you won’t see them in your home instance until they are specifically searched.
There are apparently some like !nsfw@reddthat.com, but they are hard to find since they probably aren’t visible in your home instance, and they don’t show up in the lemmy community browser. You also can’t find them on the instance they are hosted on since you need to be logged in to see nsfw communities.
You could host your own Lemmy instance, I think that would do what you want.
The political views of the main devs are controversial but it doesn’t really matter since Lemmy is free and open source. No one owns or runs it. Only lemmy.ml specifically is run by the devs.