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.
draconic_neo's thing is to moderate like a huge amount different communities, all of which have zero activity, so they can spam people's admin log with libelous ban reasons. The amount of work they put into being petty is pretty astonishing.
See my comment mod history. In under a minute, I received approximately 40 bans from a bunch of communities for 'transphobia'. I don't make transphobic comments (feel free to search my comment history) and I've never posted in any of these communities.
If you take the time and look into the communities. You'll find that every single community is moderated by draconic_neo and has zero activity actual user activity. The communities only exist to spam people's mod log with bans/squat popular topic names.
e: Another user in this very thread with the exact same ban spam behavior: https://lemmy.world/post/46317965/23518971