so I'm not sure what you're replying too because the comment was deleted but I've always been fascinated by the instance-hating and what causes it. Like a particular mod, admin, or even community you've interacted with, I kinda get. But the broader instance thing is just.... interesting.

I don't know if piefed.social has a different kind of setup, but I'm not bombarded with a lot of what instance-haters report to have happening. I'm not getting personal messages or stickied posts on my feeds, it's basically the same all feed when I use any other instance just browsing without a login (I like to visit places like lemmy.today and their sick ass layout on tablet). My subscription feed would be the same regardless as well if I migrated. I found myself on .ml because years ago instances weren't as reliable with downtime or loaded slowly/error-ed but .ml was always responsive and up for me. The only reason I've stayed is because of people who hate .ml actually, like you don't look down on someone because of the neighborhood they live in do you? For those that automatically block an entire instance, I'm just kinda glad I don't have to deal with them in that sense.

I also might be missing part of your modlog if it's not showing for me but I only see 5 bans for "anti-ai troll" 2 months ago and 3 for "Pro-Zionist debate/apologia" 9 days ago. The 3 recent are easy to figure out because of the lengthy comments you had in the crazy ass post "Update: anarchist.nexus has been refederated" (I tried to stay away from that because it all looked heated at the time lol). The 2 months ago is easy to find if you manipulate your profile link with changing comment page numbers by 5's and just look at the dates. You commented on a post that was cross-posted to several of the lemmy.dbzer0.com communities saying anti-ai stuff and got banned several minutes after that. (I'm not a mod of these communities so not judging or stating whether the ban's were valid, just sharing why they probably happened).