This has happened once before and they reversed it. But they said this last time too:

The discussions that have happened in various threads on Lemmy make it very clear that removing the communites before we announced our intent to remove them is not the level of transparency the community expects, and that as stewards of this community we need to be extremely transparent before we do this again in the future as well as make sure that we get feedback around what the planned changes are, because lemmy.world is yours as much as it is ours.

https://lemmy.world/post/3234363

    • @laverabe
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      29 months ago

      I’ve seen multiple posts from people who were banned from .ml and I looked at the removed comments and modlog myself, and people are being banned for even mild general discussion of topics debating the legitimacy of totalitarian communist policy.

      https://lemmy.world/post/12875282

      • Sybil
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        69 months ago

        this doesn’t show :

        They actively ban people who aren’t tankies.

        in fact, for evidence to the contrary, one of the biggest anarchism communities is on lemmy.ml