The square brackets around the hashtags followed by regular brackets and URLs should be interpreted by the client as URLs with link text whatever is in the square brackets - markdown is how it is formatted to do this.

So like:

[#tree](https://pixelfed.social/discover/tags/tree?src=hash) should read #tree in the client.

Strangely, viewing the post here on blahaj.zone, the tree and moss links do display like that, but lichen does not - I suspect because the length of the title (including full URL links) exceeds the allowed title length so it stops parsing the text.

You either have not spent any time reading through the evidence, or are willfully distorting the truth.

Considering their entire argument was to assert with zero evidence it was Ukrainians who did it, then to claim all the evidence showing otherwise is unreliable and we’ll never know the truth, I think we can probably answer with a reasonable degree of confidence they are purposefully seeking to mislead.