This depends on your definition of fascist. They are largely Stalin/Mao apologists and very heavy on current day CCP propaganda. This also means occasionally shilling for the Russian side in the Ukraine war. Oh yeah, and tiananmen square denial lmao.

Any way you look at it I think their politics are drastically incompatible with the idea of a website where English speakers can speak freely and create their own communities.

I don't think I am allowed to answer this - I've had one comment removed already for trying to answer this question, citing rule 5, but you can read through those that were allowed to remain. The short answer though is yes.

One of the lemmy devs is a huge tankie, like "stalin did nothing wrong but if he did they deserved it" tankie