Thanks for getting back to me. He said that he is holding on to the community name until he can hand it over to reddit mods, but it's been two weeks - I would call that squatting. He only created the sidebar after I pointed out its absence. Then he banned me without warning or communication - I believe that this was in retaliation for me questioning his motives. I discussed it all with ruud but got no resolution.
I'm no longer interested in helping with moderation at lemmy.world, just sharing my experience since it's relevant to this thread.