Mods should not be able to perma ban without cause. I.e. for a ban to be possible it needs to originate from a rule breaking offence inside the community.

Nah, that's a corollary of freedom of association: freedom to disassociate. Not saying I necessarily agree with your ban from /c/workreform. With the limited information I have, I'm inclined not to.

The only mod of that community is @kat_angstrom@lemmy.world.

Did you PM @kat_angstrom@lemmy.world and ask why you were banned?

I’ve never posted on !workreform@lemmy.world .

Maybe try /c/Antiwork? Because if I remember correctly, /c/workreform is just a nerfed version of /c/Antiwork.

This is not an instance ban from some obscure instance, this is a .world comm.

Badge of honor, .world sucks lol

This is just making me not want to say anything anywhere, because these snowflakes mods preemptively banning people make no sense at all.

Look, if you ever have anything actually worth saying, eventually someone's gonna get upset at you. E.g., people get upset at me all the time because I uncompromisingly assert my anarchist analysis and worldview on capitalist and statist instances. It's just an unpleasant part of being a human. I absolutely empathize with what you're going through.

I don’t think I’ll last here on Lemmy.

Yeah you might. Unlike Reddit, you can start up a new work reform community (or ideally something more radical lol) on a different instance, even a distinct /c/workreform. De facto, Lemmy.world does have too much influence in the Fediverse, and it does use that influence to impose neoliberal values on the Fediverse. Really, Lemmy.world is Reddit 2.0, warts and all, just with Fediverse access. But unlike Reddit, the Fediverse has tools to change that distribution of power. Namely: choose communities on other instances, e.g. "some obscure instance". And it probably makes sense to migrate to an instance whose admin team most closely represents your values.