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I'm not the All-Keeper of Receipts on this matter and I don't have a Lemmy.World account, this is just what I've gleaned from various posts coming across my timeline. My comment you're replying to was also meant more to emphasize the strength of decentralization against this kind of behavior, both reactive and proactive, instead of being a shot at Lemmy.World directly.

That said, from my understanding, there's a few things they've done recently that users are questioning. They've changed their TOS/Code of Conduct, dropping some explicit protections for the usual protected classes i.e. gender identity/ethnicity/disability/etc and generally making the rules more unclear than before. The thread here is a brief look into that, and I especially appreciate the post by fiat_lux within it. Note the admin Xilly has responded within and said they would look into adding these things back, but obviously the conspicuous removal of them caused a lot of eyebrow-raising. A couple extra threads about this are here and here

A user was also recently banned for questioning the TOS, which they report here, and provide an archive.org link to their comments here, since the L.W team wiped their account out when banning them. Their comment seems like a very fair criticism, which the L.W admins supposedly invoked users to provide. This clearly seems like a power-tripping admin taking personal offense and deliberately permabanning and wiping out their account in direct response to the user's concerns of this exact thing happening, giving the impression of immaturity and laissez-faire enforcement of the rules. Additionally, wiping out a user's content while banning them is a good way to cover your tracks on the actual ban reason. It's a good thing archive.org was available to catch this one.

Speaking of archive.org, L.W has also recently started banning archive.org links and any posts that question that decision, which is discussed here.

I'm really not invested into this saga so if someone else has more receipts or insight on these situations feel free to add on.