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I’ve just tried it out on “All” and basically the entire first page is filled with one user’s posts to !visualarts@lemmy.dbzer0.com :/

As a Wikipedia editor I can comfirm - we regularly say that napalm sticking to objects in water is POV. I do it at least twice a week. I’ll try making a bot to do it automatically so I’ll have more time for holocaust denial.

You can check old versions of any article by clicking ‘history’. And yeah, the standards used to be pretty low.

The problem might be that Google will argue this isn’t a downgrade at all, but an upgrade (for “security” reasons). I don’t want to be a pessimist, but the tech illiterate judges could eat that up.

Lemmy is developed by two (2) people and asking for one of them to leave is effectively just killing the project. If you don’t like it, you can move to an alternative such as PieFed.

Personally, I can’t make myself care about this too much. It’s a doshit take (somewhat understandable considering the guy’s background), but it was publicised over a year ago, he hasn’t said this sort of crap since then*, and Dessalines’ whiteknighting for Russia is IMO way more of an issue morally and politically. But at the end of the day the question is whether Lemmy works fine for you or not and whether the admins’ opinions harm your experience. I don’t think they do, Dessalines bans criticism on his turf but it’s just a handful of communities, while the devs are still providing the infrastructure for diametrically opposed views and communities.

*edit 5 days later: apparently he has posted this quasi-apology in the meantime