Used to do that, but people just shut me out, so I adapted and now I just recommend my [intro Marxist-Leninist reading list]
My instance has a community that dedicates a thread to just about every post you make without reading anything you've written, so this meme does have a little bit of extra context.
The effort to remove the devs from Lemmy pre-exists this DM from nutomic. It doesn't justify his statement, and I think he didn't really apologize in the many port mortem discussions about the DM that have taken place since.
Now I don't know about OP here but for a while the same people trying to take down the Lemmy devs kept finding themselves banned from trans spaces and communities.
So I am always a little skeptical about these kinds of threads and efforts to boycott, etc, especially when theres piefed and the fact we're in the Fediverse and not a reddit or meta-owned system.