They are ok with his authoritarian style of moderation, because he has been doing it since I’ve been on here beginning with the reddit “exodus”.
The best thing that could happen is for him to stay as the main mod, keep doing what he’s doing, and drive enough people away to the point where his instances become irrelevant and the communities move to a less authoritarian one.
There’s really no difference between reddit and Lemmy other than more opportunity for moreauthoritarian censor-heavy mods and admins. The “vote with your feet” didn’t work on Reddit and it doesn’t work here, since 99% of people are just lurkers who go where the majority and “defaults” are.
On Reddit anyone can make a new sub, but it virtually never works now matter how bad the original gets.