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.
It's also at least partially explained by the fact we frequently take ban actions for reports of transphobia, or of zionism, for example. Whereas that only sometimes happens on the bigger instances who tend to draw their lines in different places, to put it delicately.
"But it's anti free speech to let people spew hate speech! You're just ban happy!"
They forget we are federated with hexbear too. That probably accounts for quite a few of them! lmao
They forget about it until it becomes convenient for them.
Why don't you just not federate with authoritarians? Why tolerate authoritarianism when you're supposed to be anarchists?
You used to be a member there, making multiple alt accounts after each would eventually get banned didn’t you DroneRights/Dragon Rider?
Also iirc you recently said you would like to work alongside fascists, did you not?
That's an ad hominem argument, even though (actually kind of because) it doesn't make them look nice. The question remains: Why not just defederate?
I'm not either of those people and I don't want to work with fascists.
@eugenevdebs the freedom of association includes the freedom to not associate.
Indeed!
It doesn't give one person license to make that decision for thousands of users, in a paternalistic way. Ask the damn users. Otherwise it's nothing but admins treating their instances like personal fiefdoms.
@Flatworm7591 this is one advantage decentralized platforms/protocols like NOSTR have over polycentric platforms/protocols like Lemmy/ActivityPub
If it's about transphobia, why does blahaj have so many fewer bans than you? They're not zionists either.
3 bannable type of comments was mentioned and you only focused on one. blahaj do not have political communities and it is not pro AI to have bots downvoting AI