Summary:
I downvoted pro-AI comments in a post in leftymemes community. It was LLM generated polandball comic (Which is objectively pathetic as fuck) that showed up on my feed, blocked couple of users who I thought were unhinged, and have blocked the whole instance on my client after realizing how rabid these morons are.
I didn’t go looking for AI posts like a vigilante.
One user in question got miffed for being downvoted and banned me from places they moderate.
I guess in your drive-by downvoting you didn’t notice the huge argument happening in that thread, specifically from people dogpiling the creator for crossposting from the !imageai@sh.itjust.works to !leftymemes@lemmy.dbzer0.com? So it wasnt even originally from our board!
https://lemmy.dbzer0.com/post/46162538
I can’t even see the post anymore, OP might have been bullied into deleting it.
I saw it before and didn’t even care for it myself! i hate Poland ball comics, absolute garbage. But the dbzer0 mods have a point. You can’t even mildly critique something like that without the AI haters rolling in to be disruptive. You’ve made this big stink like you were singled out but there’s several loud people in there derailing conversations to complain about AI. In other words, you were brigading.
dbzer0’s AI suckoff stance is awful
It’s really fucking annoying too, because their userbase is generally pretty based on literally any other issue, but they just pick the stupidest hill to die on with the internet-killing machine.
Please help me get this straight so that I don’t misunderstand you.
Are you saying that you agree that people should be banned for downvoting content? So, without commenting or arguing or anything, just downvoting something you don’t like can get you banned?
Why then don’t you just disable the downvoting function for the instance?
Having considered things for a day, I would say that I think @MysticMushroom1776@lemmy.dbzer0.com probably was overzealous banning the OP from all those comms over downvotes. That’s assuming all they did was down vote some comments in that post.
If they were serially downvoting a bunch is posts in those comms then that’s that.
But I don’t otherwise find the anti-anti-ai rules on dbzer0 to be onerous. I criticize AI fairly often, I just don’t do it in the pro-ai comms. Leftymemes is funny territory since it isnt explicitly a pro-ai comm, even if the instance overall is. I do think all comma should post all their rules in sidebar. It isn’t enough to assume Instance rules are also included, since those aren’t immediately visible to a federated user checking the sidebar.
There is no instance rule against criticism of AI on db0. Being “pro AI” is not a blank cheque for authoritarian behavior against anyone who isn’t sucking genAI’s malformed cock.
This happens frequently all over db0, and not including explicitly AI communities. What is happening is that the people that run AI communities have to deal with anti-AI people in the explicitly AI communities, but then the instance in general uses that as a cover to overreact and act like assholes in other communities that are not explicitly AI.
What needs to happen is that they just need to stop being little shits and just make an instance rule and ensure each community includes it in the rules. Instead of having secret rules, they just need to make it explicit and then people can know what to expect.
Yeah, of course I don’t know what OP was really doing there, I’m just going off what they claim to have done.
I haven’t been around leftymemes, but to me, it would not have been obvious that a leftymemes community is pro centralized turbocapitalist AI. But I guess each to their own. It’s just a very random pairing.
And I really wish communities would put down their rules like law and only execute rules that are actually written.