I did some analysis of the modlog and found this:
Ok, bigger instances ban more often. Not surprising, because they have more communities and more users and more trouble. But hang on, dbzer0 isn't a very big instance. What happens if we do a ratio of bans vs number of users?
Ok, so lemmy.ml, dbzer0 and pawb are issue an outsized amount of bans for the number of users they have... But surely the number of communities the instance hosts is going to mean they have to ban more? Bans are used to moderate communities, not just to shield their user-base from the outside. Let's look at the number of bans per community hosted:
Seems like dbzer0 really loves to ban. Even more than the marxists and the furries! What is it about dbzer0 that makes them such prolific banners?
Raw-ish numbers and calculations are in this spreadsheet if anyone wants to make their own charts.
when a community is that ban heavy, it means 1 or 2 things, the mods do not like contradiction to thier narratives, or theres a ton of bots. its more likely the former rather than latter. its true for reddit with the bots.
if it were for actual violations, which mods dont even follow most of the time, the bans would be low, because it deters anyone from making the same violation in theory.
Or they are safe spaces for certain groups
any reason to think this? Apparently there is a brigading comm on lemmy.world called !fuck_ai@lemmy.world that attacks the ai comms on dbzer0? Also I know that a lot of troll accounts get made to harass some specific users on dbzer0?
nah it just means people get salty and make a lot of alts.