So I went back because I was curious. Again it is a fucking wild ride, I suggest yall search it out. I'm not gonna post it because I don't wanna bring any unnecessary bandwagoning. But I searched for anti-semitism real quick and found this:

It proves absolutely nothing but it would be pretty weird to see the devs of lemmy cite anti-semitism as a reason Orwell was bad if they were also anti-semitic.