That’s a highly suspicious use of a ban that I would like admin feedback on.

While your take about decision making is slightly wrong…
We’re federating with everything by default and use blocklists. Hexbear is fedetating with nobody by default and uses allowlists.
Basically, no action has been made by local admins for this new federation to happen.
We never had to defederate them before because they weren’t fedetating with us.

The next step would be discussion then vote in the agora. I expect defederation to take a bit more than a week if the process hasn’t changed too much since last time.

That said, your comment isn’t anywhere near ban worthy and is a really bad optics on whichever mod was involved in that.