Yeah agreed, that's how it works in Telegram and I don't find it annoying

Hmm, yeah not sure how I feel about them either, they at least seem well done.

I like the slightly-frowning one, they kind of remind me of the Lego characters.

Kbin is another open source link aggregation program with a different developer that uses the same protocol as Lemmy (ActivityPub), so kbin and Lemmy instances can communicate with each other. If you see anyone with "@kbin.social" after their name then that's where they're from. You can check it out yourself here as well kbin.social

Seems to be Ernest's attitude about that sort of thing, he doesn't like to hide things from the average user that someone more technically inclined would still be able to access