No, the transparency aspect is really the biggest part of all of this. Like, do whatever you want, but make sure to state clearly what you're doing rather than hide it.

Similar to PieFed's voting quota: even admins were surprised how their own instances were behaving when the code update came through and they had no idea why it was limiting votes.

Actually, that's always been my beef with lemmy.ml: be loud and proud a tankie as you want to be - OWN that shit, you know!?! - but don't lie to people that you are "just a place to discuss FOSS". Banning people from their instance is fine and their right, but when they are disingenuous about the reason, citing a rule that does not say anything remotely close to what it really means, the way that they wield it... that tends to make people upset, you know? (And there are several communities dedicated to calling out that shit, like MeanwhileOnGrad.)

Lotta weird decisions going around. I just try to stay sane through it all... and perchance I fail 😜