Without taking any stance on what the rules should be, I’ll re-quote this for emphasis:

we need to be extremely transparent before we do this again in the future

Instead, we have communities banned without a public post or opportunity for community members to engage with the admins making the decision. I joined lemmy.world before it was the biggest instance or anybody’s idea of the default because I was aware of mastodon.world and had the impression it was well-managed. I’m starting to lose that impression here, and I don’t like it.