If you check out lemm.ee and lemmy.ml you can see that we have a bulk of ~100 hexbear upvoters on new pushing socialist content to the top of the feeds. By banning reactionaries, they lose this bulk of upvotes and comments that make their reactionary posts relevant (despite being controversial). I've even noticed a shift in instances not federated with hexbear posting more socialist leaning content due to this influence.
The tankie cabal stays winning
Probably, but less due to less users. I also don't know how ban happy lemmygrad is
we've been banning anyone with the slightest liberalism since the site was made lol
Pretty ban happy, as good tankies are.