I've only seen that on a few instances now, and all of them are pretty close to what .ml is... Was that in a recent update or what exactly? Cause its not actually how lemmy handles bans, at least it wasn't until recently.
Nah i mean this type of ban behavior. Ive seen that on other instances as well (absolutely ew) and i think that this action is performed by a bot or user script, is the first ban from the same person? Then it's a script, if not, its a bot that gets triggered by a instance ban.