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.
i expected blahaj.zone to have more bans since as far as i know its supposed to be a safe place and less tolerant of transphobia (along with there being no downvotes to bury hateful comments and posts)
I'm also surprised. I expected higher numbers from the instance that describes itself as
Or perhaps I should be delighted that few bans are needed to achieve it.
This has been my experience on blahaj. Really happy with my home instance
Blahaj is overall a fantastic instance, it was my first home.
I think they're defederated from poorly moderated instances and therefore don't need to ban as many users. Perhaps db0 doesn't defederate as often?
Db0 only defederates with community vote, and same for re-federating.
Except for CSAM and clear bigotry.
Forgot about that, that seems to rarely happen as a user.
We're being fairly precautionary about it.
I think that's a weird quirk of Lemmy in general, is that the lot of us tend to be much more accepting of differences. I haven't exactly spent too much time around, but nobody's mentioned my instance or 'queerness' in ill intent, even when disagreements happen.
But also if there are instances or groups created where a very large portion of said instance is bigoted, it's very easy to just defederate and move on.