Interesting.

I came into this not having formed an opinion, but after reading their proudly linked founding manifesto and viewing some of the comments of the devs, including making light of the Ethnocide of Uyghurs, I'm quite sure they are the very definition of tankies.

That aside, as long as Lemmy the software is open source and people can freely choose with whom to federate, I don't see it being an issue.