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.

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[–] OpenStars@piefed.social 6 points 1 week ago (24 children)

Wow this is really interesting.

Actually this might be a great time to ask you for a feature request: lately I've been banned from SO MANY AI communities located on dbzer0, the trouble with that being that I've literally never heard of any of these, much less interacted with any of them, presumably even with a downvote.

Is this "harassment" then, to be preemptively banned from something on some other server that I had no intention of ever going to? What if someone were to create 10 communities a day and ban someone from them all? I guess that one would get noticed and shut down, but I would not put it past an AI content generator to do just this sort of thing, if it were given the ability to do so.

Anyway, perhaps those notifications could be silenced unless I've ever commented or at least voted in the community that I am being banned from? I don't need to know or care about something that I have zero interest in - these unsolicited bans are spam.

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[–] StarvingMartist@sh.itjust.works 6 points 1 week ago (2 children)

Wow some of y'all are pissy AF over literal data being shown to you. If you think it's wrong then you have free will, put your money where your mouth is and do it better or stop yapping.

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[–] slazer2au@lemmy.world 6 points 1 week ago

I guess you don't filter out things like dubvee or DB0 who when you get banned on an instance level you will also be banned on a tonne of communities or if you downvote one post in a community run by draconic neo they will ban you from half a dozen communities inflating their numbers.

[–] Corgana@startrek.website 5 points 1 week ago (5 children)

Very interesting stuff! Defederations should count as a ban of all instance users, imo.

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