It’s not world news over there, it’s world “news”. The admins and mods of lemmy.ml will allow all manner of, and even post some themselves, pure Russian propaganda over there, it won’t be removed and this user won’t be banned (they continuously post a bunch of this crap).
Join the lemmy.ml boycott today! No posts, comments or upvotes on comms that are on the lemmy.ml instance!
Not necessarily, lemmy.ml can only be the face of Lemmy if we (the wider Fediverse) allow it to be. Because the truth is, most people do not care about who the devs of an open source project are.
Many do currently because a good portion of us lemmings are technical people to begin with, but the less technical folks coming from Reddit aren’t going to go to the GitHub or go-to Dessalines wonderful essays page.
But what those people do care about, is what is visible to them through their day to day use, and wide defederation will absolutely take care of that problem