Yeah, this pretty much wasn't an accident, they just also banned this user, one I had created long before the ban, because of:
reason: Ban evasion
While having no problem doing that, what they haven't done is replied directly or addressed the ticket I sent them, so any benefit of the doubt is pretty much extinguished on my side.
It's clear to me they want to sweep it under the rugs on the hope that controlling the narratives on the most popular lemmy instance works out for them. This was probably what they intended by purging my account all along, thankfully they didn't seem to keep in mind the nuances of the fediverse which has still allowed me to keep evidence and my user account history despite their worst instincts.