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 was surprised to find that dbzer0 has 290 communities.
i don’t see how that has bearing on what i said lol. i argued about not creating many new communities and not closing inactive communities. the last new community i heard of were the two or three replacements for feddit, and just the 41st top community (41st since I estimate the photon pager has 40 items per page by default, and i clicked the top of page 2) has not have posts in over a month, let alone mod actions.
Still hasn’t actually answered your post after 2 days.
yeah…
well to be fair, unruffled hasn’t answered mine either
but rimu’s a bit of a surprise to me, probably since i’ve never really “known” (seen) them much before other than “python dev, of piefed, making a third popular activitypub threadiverse client with lots of ambitious features”
still, i think some of the things directed that way in this thread are quite unfair
Rimu is mad and looking for anything he can throw out.
Why do all of them have red squiggly lines for typos and only lemmy.dbzer0.com has been added to your dictionary?
that’s how it is by default for some reason. i haven’t added to me dictionary either and that’s how it shows in libreoffice calc. it seems like it just doesn’t squiggly any “word” with numbers in it.
flippant antagonism is the worst thing against discourse on the fediverse and we can do our part
I guess they have 290 communities which are federated to the instance where you’re collecting these stats; according to dbzer0’s front page they actually have 332 communities. (Also your screenshot shows 1337 communities on lemmy.ml but we actually have 4.74K, and 3919 for .world which actually has 13.1K.)