There are many instances which have “stuck by” Lemmy for years, such as hexbear or lemmygrad, and none of them ever showed the sort of entitled attitude that beehaw admins have.
Interesting choices. Often it doesnt seem like they would be using the more advanced moderation tools anyway. Its just natural that they dont complain about something missing they dont need.
Does this mean when a user is banned, all of their previous comments and posts are deleted? I understand the usefulness of the change, but I think this maneuver could get rid of a lot of useful information too, be it a misclick, a temporarily high tempered staff member, or user behavior that goes against instance rules but do not warrant deletion of their content (because they were not a spammer, neither a serial liar).
When the user is unbanned, is their content restored, or it is unrecoverably deleted on a ban?
Also, about the last part: does that mean that when the remote user has been banned locally, or when they are banned on their hosting instance?