It's not an instance ban, they're still here. They just got banned a lot because mods in communities were tired of them blanket downvoting all or most content in communities, frankly I don't blame them.

The downvotes felt like a disapproval for suggesting using AI.

I don't think so, this is dbzer0 such sentiment is favored here. Their affiliation with a Fuck_AI community makes it clear that they don't mean it sincerely and people see through that.

Yes I made it very clear and upfront that Zionist apologia is not allowed, I never said or claimed it was a free speech community or that there wouldn't be censorship. The fact that this thread was swarmed with sockpuppet trolls attacking me and the community just further proves I'm on the right path, and I will continue to issue bans to people acting like Zionist trolls or apologists.

That isn't what I originally banned them for. I updated the entry in the modlog to include a link to the original comment which got them banned but that comment doesn't help their cause should they want to get an appeal later.

Yup there's been a lot of suspicious accounts being created and waking up in the wake of the feddit controversy. And that's why we're clamping down so hard on Zionism.

Thanks, just fixed it.

Totally banning that dipshit from the new europe community by the way. Genocide apologia in all forms is forbidden and is a ban on sight.

I think it's something to be careful of though since mods and admins may yield to it out of fear or lack of knowledge and start going after criticism of Zionism thinking that it will be seen as antisemitism.

Yeah, I wouldn't be either, there have been brigades for a while actually and all the brigaders claim they aren't that it's just "individual opinions". It is hard to know definitively and that's really what they use to not get caught. Even if some of the people I've banned aren't technically brigaders I don't feel bad about it since they were anti-AI trolls in the first place, they don't get anything out of my community. None of them are innocent or have been. OP of this thread certainly also isn't innocent.

Yeah I agree, the Anti AI movement (and it is a movement) is extremely reactionary and doesn't accomplish anything. Certainly isn't helping artists. And yeah they're not even comparable to luddites who went after factories back in the day. Anti-AI trolls are going after individual people, often harassing people, also deciding to use any arguments even ones proven to be lies or faulty. They're inadvertently helping big corporations by making themselves and their movement look like quacks or trolls.

Yeah, thanks for the heads up. I’ve proposed in !div0_governance@lemmy.dbzer0.com to update the instance rules to disallow anti-genAI trolling in communities where genAI is allowed. They can take their pro-copyright-rentseeking campaign elsewhere. Don’t know why they thought it would fly here.

Did you post it yet? I didn't see it there.

You’re conflating an “anti-AI movement” with just not liking AI.

@Flatworm7591@lemmy.dbzer0.com is literally an admin, they have access to voter and user metric data that you don't. Who are you to claim there isn't brigading or a movement going on? That's right you don't and can't actually know better than they do. If I didn't know better I might think you were trying to deny this issue due to your part in it.

No you aren't, the tactic that @orca@orcas.enjoying.yachts And many others are using here is called Tu quoque and it is a logical fallacy.

As if being a woman is such a horrible and disgusting thing, fuck off misogynistic pig. It's disgraceful you haven't been instance banned on your home server.