Complete breakdown of the gaming press on this topic has led to folks like OP fending alone

Yes, supposedly Paul found that banning people from Bluesky would also zap their PDS account and that wasn't supposed to happen. A Bluesky ban should ban only from their appview, not at the PDS level. I have no idea if that's been fixed yet, though.

And in theory...

Like, they hid *our* comments, where we pushed back firmly, but there's an entire wave of straight-up "Go fuck yourselves" comments at the bottom of the thread NOT getting removed, because those don't have a lot of likes.

Absolutely unacceptable. Stop silencing us @bsky.app you ain't slick.

Forcing people to "prove" they "deserve" to create the things they want to create is such fucking panopticon bullshit