I used to see this on Reddit, I’m disappointed this behaviour is also on Lemmy.
Users collecting mod status on multiple communities, and then using that power to mass-ban a single user from a bunch of communities.
Modlog show how incredibly trigger happy some mods can be. Minor transgressions, deserving to have their comment removed at least, but then banned from unrelated communities as a consequence. This will only get worse as users become supermods.
Edit: It seems this is how an instance ban is reported, by banning from any communities the user has participated in. Then perhaps it isn’t all as bad as it seems.
The problem is not being communist (or following Deng Xiaoping), that’s fine. It’s to follow certain Reddit patterns of moderation that you see regardless of the mod being communist or not, such as hidden rules.
And the presence of that specific hidden rule (“don’t criticise the Chinese government here”) there is an open secret. It’s enforced so often that, even in cases like this - where dessalines is actually saying the truth* - people don’t believe it.
*check the modlog, the guy was behaving like a wild monkey.