Lemmy admins are running a community. They’re like gardeners more than anything else. There’s a certain kind of garden they want to grow. They’re going to encourage it.
The beautiful thing about the fediverse is you can now run your own instance, using your own moderation policies and your own levels of transparency. Nothing stopping that.
Admins are human, they have an agenda, as all humans do, you want to find a group of people that’s in line with your agenda as well.
If you’re running a small community, and people are brigading it, it would make sense to have controls to prevent say outside votes from counting. Or to require minimum account age and posting history before they can post in your more niche community. Lemmy has a history of people creating a one-time use account posting something like spam or, controversy, or trolling. And no other history associated with that account. So being able to limit those would be a net benefit for people with more fragile communities. So I don’t think there’s anything wrong with community administrators talking amongst themselves coming up with strategies on how to manage a wild community when they just want to help their niche garden. It’s reasonable