fanning the flames of petty drama
You consider that mods locking a whole community without intent to reopen it is petty drama. The 290 comments on that announcement show the opposite: https://lemmy.blahaj.zone/post/20937206
(I know you don't care about links, but I'm doing this for other people reading this).
constantly calling for communities to split apart,
Not sure if that's because you only follow this account, but the one where I post most "in community" content is @Blaze@sopuli.xyz. I regularly post there trying to build communities rather than split them.
And if you are referring to split communities like !linux@lemmy.ml to !linux@programming.dev , that's because ml are known to be very power tripping: https://feddit.uk/post/12952230. This is known, and there is even a whole community dedicated to them, on your instance: !meanwhileongrad@sh.itjust.works. I don't post there that often.
I recently asked for consolidation of !television@lemmy.world and !showsandmovies@lemm.ee.
And if you are referring to !lotrmemes@lemmy.dbzer0.com , that was initiated by PugJesus, not by me: https://sh.itjust.works/post/29284968?scrollToComments=true
I'm also the main poster on !fedigrow@lemm.ee , which objective is indeed to grow communities.
servers to defederate
Kind of similar to the point above. Ml, hexbear and lemmygrad are known to be tankies, so I was suggesting one instance to have them all defederated, to allow for new joiners to have a better first experience on Lemmy: https://feddit.org/post/6819084
Is it really that debatable? The feedback from the comments was quite positive. I don't remember calling for any other defederation, but maybe I forgot.
users to be banned
When did I last asked for someone to be banned? My latest comment on the kind was there, but I was actually against a ban:
IP banning him from the whole site seems too much.