I did some analysis of the modlog and found this:

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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?

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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:

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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.

  • wonderingwanderer@sopuli.xyzEnglish
    78·
    14 hours ago

    Db0 users calling lemmy.world and feddit.org “ban happy” are gonna have an aneurysm.

    So very anarchist of them policing their instances heavier than literally any other.

      • wonderingwanderer@sopuli.xyzEnglish
        16·
        11 hours ago

        So when you finally achieve your anarchist utopia, what are you going to do when people you disagree with from a few communes over show up to your town square and start saying things you don’t like?

        Are you going to kick them out of your commune? What if they have more people than you, or they’re more equipped?

        How do anarchists plan to avoid this situation in the real world, in an anarchic system?

        For that matter, how to anarchists intend to prosecute the Epsteins of the world, if there are no laws or enforcement agencies?