whee, i missed that one completely. it seems that some over-eager hachyderm mod suspended @dgerard@awful.systems 's account. nothing that can be done on our side. (unfortunately i don't have a backchannel to the hachyderm mods).
so the official reply is that mod got bored, and also was asked to re-open. which is, of course, fine.
and to be clear
i didn't think there is any conspiracy, that would be ridiculous,
if we subscribe to the idea that a community is owned, not stewarded, by mods, it's perfectly fine to do with the community whatever the mods want, without the need of them being accountable to anyone else,
i do think that reopening the sub after closing it in protest is mostly sad,
and a very small and rather insignificant footnote to a more general discussion on (f)utility of using master's tools to bring down the master's house.
all their points about cville are pure post hoc speculation trash; this is way too close to the “but but violence is bad!”; laughing at the fash is good; beating up the fash while laughing is even better.
and perhaps a little bow to lem's “cyberiad” (automateusz, translated as automatthew, from the story automatthew's friend)