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.
This is skewed by the mods who just ban people from their dozens of AI slop communities for a couple downvotes for stuff that came through the All feed.
You don’t see it unless you go to db0 or look for it.
You can also block communities if you don’t like them.
Or you use New or Scaled and All, which a lot more people do than the mods think.
Then just block them if you hate the communities? You don’t have to downvote everything in there.
Then just block them if you hate the communities?
You’re not even banned from there, which suggests this is an alt. But you are banned for transphobia. https://lemmy.dbzer0.com/modlog?userId=22428510
Someone downvoting a couple of things in the All feed becsuse that is how many feeds work to filter to what you like Is a reasonable reaction even if it doesn’t work that way here.
Why are you so upset about a couple of downvotes?
Why are you offended about communities you don’t like?
cough mushroom cough