On another topic, there are rumors circulating that we are fascists or supported genocide.
This is the part that I think will make it more difficult, since I imagine there are quite a few devs that would rather contribute to projects by less politically-outspoken project owners.
(I would also note that they don’t deny being tankies, and tankies tend to insist they aren’t fascists. They also deny the Uyghur genocide so they have that going for them too.)
I’ve at least heard people defending PHP recently. Supposedly it’s, uh, better than before.
That said if there was a community fork of Lemmy that people started organizing around I wouldn’t mind seeing if there was something I could help with.