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.
Rimu has always been interested in creating a fediverse with good moderation. One side of that is piefed’s great moderation tools, another side is posts like this looking at the data on the moderation that’s being done. This is a very typical Rimu post through that lens.
Rimu has always been an opinionated person who injects his own feelings into the code to ban things he doesn’t like.
I wonder how many ‘bans’ Rimu would have under his belt if we added the effects of multiple PieFed instances blacklisting communities for the word ‘meme’ and other hard-coded pettiness.