The people who complain about those in power, sometimes turn out just as bad. These admins probably rail against capitalism, how politicians can't be trusted, and the like, but then do this kind of stuff.
They have hard-coded list of domains to disallow logging in. Logging in will redirect them to a rickroll video instead of the instance's login interface.
They're certainly shitty instances. They're free to block them if they want, since you can always just fork the source and remove that bit.
But I don't think that the project is associated with any particular instance that it allows you to log in to. They're taking a definite negative stance. They're associating themselves, just as anti rather than pro.
Personally, I think it's a little silly. Despite the term being overused (and not even being a bad thing usually), its a classic example of the annoying kind of virtue signaling. Doing a silly little thing that makes no difference at all while trying to make yourself look good to peers. It's like they want credit for taking on the "extremist" instances, by doing a bunch of nothing other than some mild finger waggling.
Read the GPL or the FSF sties. Or for that matter look at opensource.org. I think you will find that use restrictions are not allowed. This is a basic principle of both free and open source software collectively FOSS.
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