[at_a_remove]

If it were platform hopping, it would be ban, then hop, then ban, then hop. It takes time to hop and move all of your content and followers.

This time has not elapsed.

[dogma1138]

It’s to prevent this, so you don’t have their user base hope to the other platform to express their anger, it also helps when you share the news cycle.

This isn’t an opinion for or against this pattern just an observation on why it makes sense.

[at_a_remove]

Sort of a pre-emptive revenge, then.