I wouldn’t have chosen dbzer0 because of the significantly higher proportion of psycho mods and the AI slop vigilantism
What do you mean? /genq
Certain mods will stalk users for “anti-AI” sentiment and preemptively block them over a range of communities. This can include pretending that any downvotes on AI slop are “brigading.”
Yeah, recently checked my Lemmy.ca accounts modlog and found out that i have been banned from 2 db0 AI communities for 3 months now. Which is fine, because I would have blocked them first if I saw posts from them.
I wish I knew when I was blocked and was offered a quick “unsubscribe” . I surf by “all” as a lazy git and don’t otherwise notice much.
Dont know about the former, but have seen the latter. Quite a few people on that instance that get mad when other users systematically downvote all AI generated content they see. I am one of those downvoters so yeah… That doesnt make it a bad instance necessarily tho.

That doesnt make it a bad instance necessarily tho.

It has a unique governance system lemmy.dbzer0.com/c/div0_governance , admins are responsive, the instance has a real identity, there’s a reason it’s the 5th most active instance

lemmy.fediverse.observer/list

/0 Governance - Divisions by zero

A community for discussion and democratic decision making in the Divisions by zero. Anyone with voting rights can open a governance thread and initiate a vote or a discussion. There’s no special keywords you must be aware of before you open a thread, but there are some. here’s the governance thread manual [https://github.com/db0/threativore/blob/main/README_manual.md#governance]. ## Answers * What is Governance [https://lemmy.dbzer0.com/post/35725820] * About voting rights and flairs [https://lemmy.dbzer0.com/post/35557475]

Maybe im still too fresh off of reddit, but the linked mod’s definition of brigading and vote manipulation seem pretty tortured…

Brigading logically implies a brigade… like a concerted effort by many people, usually coming over from the same place. To mass manipulate the content of another place.

And on reddit, ‘vote manipulation’ referred to using bots/ multiple accounts to downvote others while upvoting oneself. See the whole unidan thing.