It only seems like that, because currently a large chunk of the people here are technical people who aren’t afraid of opening or navigating GitHub

The average joe just looking for their Reddit replacement does not care who the devs are or what they believe.

But they do care what they see in their day-to-day usage of the platform. Ergo, if there was wide defederation from the Tankie Triad it would go a long way to shifting the wider Lemmy-verses rep back to more positive pastures

As far as the code base itself, it’s just code, whose purpose is to be a link-aggregator social media server software. There’s nothing political about it in any way