Different presentations, different expectations. Also, you can hardly call the shit show that this comment section was "crickets".

In any case, L.W never presented itself as being democratic, nor having a "Free as in Freedom" approach to governance.

Dbzer0 does (or at least did) present itself as being against authoritarianism in governance, and being democratic. As the leadership in that governance began pushing for rules that causes users who were there primarily for "free as in freedom" rather than leftism to leave or be excluded, the pool of voters will shrink and become more of an echo-chamber. (Similar to how other leftist movements have slid into authoritarianism)

I ended up finding my home on .zip instead, where I get to pick these sorts of things for myself.

In any case, the actions of an admin have far more significance than those of a regular user. Someone saying "You are X, all X should be killed." (I.e, you should be killed) is an explicit threat, and if it were me I wouldn't want to be in touch with that person either.