

The Lemmy community is broadly 50:50 on their support for said calls for the violence.
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There’s astroturfing. Careful with judging community vibes by obviously votes but also comments.
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There is more to “The Lemmy community” than what’s on display on .ml.

I would guess they were probably thinking more about your Zen Browser reference1, and your comment on Mullvad Browser. Both are misinfo and I would agree it’s good to do a little DD on your own before posting hearsay. Even with the disclaimers it’s contributing to spreading and giving credibility to those claims.
1: Perhaps the least inspiring major FF fork from a privacy perspective… https://codeberg.org/dialhome-study/browser-network-insights