It's the way a Telegram bots deliver the links. See response above.

It's a Telegram bot that filters top rated articles in news.ycombinator and it links them like that. You can click the 'comments' link and see for yourself.

Thanks for your answer.

I understand, I assume it was during all that backlash against Lemmy and the devs, when even r/LemmyMigration mods created r/KbinMigration and closed that one due to the devs political affiliation and moderation policy.

Lemmygrad doesn't seem to be a very friendly instance unless you have those specific political loyalties, and it seems self-isolating as well to an extent, I just want to foster a culture of not letting anyone control what you see or what you can say, and also a culture of accountability and feedback. I just think thats what makes communities alive and good.

I understand (and it's something kind of ingrained in the Lemmy logic itself) this idea that you have to just join an instance taking into account things like politics. But I like the idea of having more neutral spaces, for example if you see why some users like your instance, they perceive it as an "apolitical", "chill" place with a good technical leadership.

As you say it's a personal conviction, maybe you thought your own instance should reflect your values and not federate with those that you don't like. But right now, don't you think that essentially mean limiting the access to the information? It's not "big deal", yes, they can create another account, but why? Why is it so needed?

I think you could perfectly run the instance and let everybody block what they don't want to see, and moderate on individual basis until circumstances require otherwise.

Yes and I value transparency and I think a good mod/admin gathers feedback from the community before and after making important decisions that might be perceived as censorship.

To me leadership and administration is in place to serve the people. The people managing this server are essentially providing a service whether for free or whatever. It is totally OK to raise concerns, questions and demand changes. I think most people just feel reassured of having that instance blocked because it matches their worldview.

Following your logic all the people that protested the API where wrong by demanding the leadership to not fuck the platform? Lol

Look at the discussion in other instances, for example

https://lemmy.blahaj.zone/post/99601

Yet most the answers this thread has been receiving essentially consist of "stfu & gtfo", if I end up leaving it's not going to be just because of the admin decisions but much more because of the poor userbase that does not care about holding admins accountable and retaining control. I don't even blame the admins at this point.

Bro I am already planning on making my own for other reasons. What's the matter with someone asking questions or reasons for a ban? I know I can leave and probably will. This is a much needed conversation. Don't like when users let themselves to be treated as babies. That's why corporations do what they want with us.

Yes, I regularly block communities from my feed. It is my decision. I am not delegating this decision to the admins. What's the line? I already mentioned: overall security, spam, legal issues, totally fine to me.

All I'm doing is to ask questions and express discomfort about the server owner restricting my access and you guys get all defensive

Ok and where's the announcement? Where's the explanation? There's just a lack of transparency. I already mentioned there might be valid reasons but this clearly seems worldview/politically motivated.

I also know how to create an account in several instances. It's not about technical issues, it is about the culture.

Yeah, that's why I don't like much how they are using this place to repost memes or tweets. It's not content I really like, a written thought like yours will always be more genuine and personalized.