So this is generally about stuff that seems to have gone through a some amount of moderation and is generally a point of contention between some users and admins/mods.

For that reason, I'll put it all behind a spoiler tag just so it's clear that I'm not interested in being contentious or re-prosecuting the substantive topic ... but interested in understanding in what actually happened, asking the relevant mods if they're happy to clarify things, and even ask questions about how moderation on these recurrently contentious topics is done on this instance (again, without intending to be substantive about it, but more procedural).

To clarify my personal motivation in this, my experience with fediverse "drama" in the past has been that digging into the details of exactly what happened tends to "air" things out and reveal, at least to me, as is so often the case in things, that most involved were neither saints nor demons and that there's usually a procedural/systems/behavioural lesson to be learnt rather separate from a lot of the baggage people bring to bear on the issue.

Also, it's kinda cool that this local only now!