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.
Isn't it really easy to get unbanned from blahaj by just apologising?
Yeah, from what I’ve seen Ada is very willing to forgive and unban people who apologize and seem to have learned something. But it seems like the vast majority of people banned for transphobia or other bigotry would rather double down. Sucks to suck.
Yep, pretty much. We also don't care if people ban evade, if evading the ban means they stop the behaviour that got them banned the first time around.
The goal is to make a safe community, not to punish people.