the political beliefs of the Lemmy developers never harmed any of the several opposition communities or servers

Hard disagree. Lemmy is full of authoritarian propaganda, and they’re quite happy to abuse and harass users. The devs might be on lemmy.ml instead of Hexbear, but they’re on the same team spreading their propaganda with a ML facade.

I’ve been told I’m “going to get the wall” (i.e. they’ll execute me against a wall, a death threat) and had an old account followed around with them downvoting everything I posted until I just abandoned it.

I still use Lemmy but I won’t even admit I use it unless it really cleans up a lot of the misinformation and hate, and I see certain devs as central to this problem.

I’ll happily move to a new platform to avoid them.

Mmm weeks, delicious

I’d love to see Lemmygrad cut off, it’s full of propaganda and malicious users.