Ek-Hou-Van-Braai

Can someone help me figure out why I was banned from a few communities?

Checked my notifications to see this, I’m not even active in those communities.

The reason says ' Piefed Troll ' I’m not sure what that could be?

Can someone help me figure out why I was banned? I wasn’t very active in the last week I can’t imagine why I’d be banned, especially from these communities.

Mar 9 at 9:55amWeb
Show threadBazellMar 9
Looks like someone hates PieFed users.
Show threadFree Israel Fuck AIMar 9
@[email protected] is racist in more ways than one (he’s an antisemite too)
Show threadkingofrasMar 9

Welcome to the fediverse

Instead of one u/spez, we have several dozen mini spez here. Many instance owners will instance ban users just for one comment where you forget or don’t want to place an /s after your comment.

Many of these people are young, inexperienced and have therefore no true insight in the power they wield, not of the consequences this type of behaviour has on the overall success chances of a platform that struggles to get 6 digit monthly active users.

But the most interesting part of this is that these type of comments/ criticisms are downvoted by an army of users who apparently don’t mind totalitarianism in a digital space.

Show threadmonkeyjoeMar 9

But the most interesting part of this is that these type of comments/ criticisms are downvoted by an army of users who apparently don’t mind totalitarianism in a digital space.

I feel that’s a bit much. If you feel like you got banned and silenced, nothing stops you from:

  • Not interacting with them
  • Not being on their instance
  • Blocking the mods/admins
  • Spinning up your own instance with better rules

Mods can be weird, but it’s not totalitarianism. The term uses to describe Hitler and Stalin isn’t when you get a comment removed on the internet. Unless you’re terminally online and think your comment removed on a niche internet forum is on par with the SS bursting into your home on suspicion that you’re Jewish.

Show threadbetterdeadthanredditMar 9
You could ask Draconic_NEO directly. No idea how that will go but the good news is that if you don’t participate in those communities, there’s really no impact on your use of the site.
@Draconic_NEO - Divisions by zero

“Let Chaos storm, let cloud shapes swarm; I wait for form”

Show threadEk-Hou-Van-BraaiMar 9

@[email protected]

Care to help us figure out why I was banned from these communities?

Show thread[deleted]Mar 9
Odds are high that user blocked you with the ban.
Show threadAnonomousWolfMar 9
@[email protected]
Show threadAnakin RosebudMar 9

He’s not going to respond dude, he’s a troll and a coward.

@[email protected] Respond please, I know you’re awake no one sleeps this fucking long. Don’t say you’re a dragon and that dragons do because dragons aren’t real schizo!

Show threadMagnificentSteinerMar 9

Seems that a few people are getting banned for “random” reasons.

(Looking at ban reasons and their posts from the same time I suspect it’s all because they criticised AI lmao)

lemmy.zip/modlog/4125 lemmy.zip/modlog/747138 etc

Seems you got banned for your post “I searched CachyOS vs Fedora on YouTube and all I found was AI Slop 🙄”

PTB 100%

Modlog - Lemmy.zip

Lemmy

Show threadtae glas [siad/iad]Mar 9

can confirm, i & a few other users got comments removed & banned from some communities for talking about how to spot genAI images etc

most of the people in question were slrpnk.net users, so it makes sense why we’d be against something that’s so electricity- and water-hungry while providing very little of use (meanwhile i’m fine with locally-hosted analytical AI that’s doing stuff like analysing scans for cancer, for example)

but weirdly, the bans all got labelled as stuff like “anti-AI neoliberal”, even though neoliberals are totally fine with corporate-owned genAI being added needlessly to every service 🤷

Show threadGrailMar 9
dbzer0 users call anyone who disagrees with them a liberal no matter what the issue is, because they’re the followers of the One True Socialism
Show threadpivot_rootMar 9
Isn’t the db0 instance anarchist not socialist?
Show threadcommieMar 9
anarchism is also called libertarian socialism
Show threadDragonTypeWyvernMar 9
And there’s no such thing as an anarchocapitalist because it’s an innate oxymoron.
Show threadcommieMar 9

I don’t think you replied to the right comment

libertarian socialism is a term from the 19th century

Show threadDragonTypeWyvernMar 9
I don’t think you understand yes and
Show threadFuckAITrollsMar 9
Anarchism is so dumb, it’s literally dumbasses who want no laws so they can do whatever they want including download movies for free and steal art from artists. Fucking disgraceful @[email protected] is a disgrace for joining this space of idiot sovern citizens who want to be immune from consequences
Show threadmonkeyjoeMar 9
You don’t understand anarchism, not a shock either.
Show threadFuckAITrollsMar 9
Of course I don’t, anarchism is nonsense! We need rules and leaders or society would fall to pieces!
Show threadDragonTypeWyvernMar 9
Thanks for proving you don’t know what you’re talking about, I mean, we already knew, but the warm fuzzy feeling of being indisputably right is always nice
Show threadMagnificentSteinerMar 9

LMAO are you 12? You sure sound like it.

Guess we found the person making all the Draconic_NEO impersonation accounts.

You seem totally unhinged. Get help.

Show threadFuckAIFreeIsraelMar 9
They are fascist, they support AI the tool of the fascist machine. @[email protected] is another cog in the machine
Show threadAmnesigenicMar 9
You’re a fucking zionist, your opinions on what is or isn’t fascism are completely worthless
Show threadFuckAIFreeIsraelMar 9
I am a Zionist. I support my county and I support my people and if I lived there I would gladly and proudly support my people by serving in the IDF! Antisemitic losers like you think that’s evil or disgusting because you hate Jews and our country. Fuck you! Your opinions are as worthless as the opinions of those Nazi skinheads!
Show threadAmnesigenicMar 9
Countless anti-zionist jews both in Israel and around the world stand as living proof that you are a lying sack of shit, their bravery and selflessness make it impossible for cowardly scum like yourself to tie zionism to jewish identity. You’re losing and you know it.
Show threadCrozekielMar 9
It is interesting to me that the modlog doesn’t show who did action. Is that normal? I would have expected to see who the moderator was that performed the mod action, but honestly haven’t been involved with moderating a website in basically 15 years, so I don’t know what the accepted norms are these days…
Show threadMagnificentSteinerMar 9
I think there are mobile apps that show it (pretty sure a thread here from a few days ago had a screenshot showing as much).
Show threadUnrefinedChihuahuaMar 9
dbzer0 is a pro-AI instance (not corporate AI like ChatGPT or Grok), maybe that’s why?
Show threadwizardbeardMar 9

Generally they don’t ban for anti-ai sentiment, unless you’re going to the AI comms and being a dick or downvoting everything in them instead of just blocking them.

My account is on the instance and I’m semi active in a few specifically anti-ai comms, and I’ve never had any problems.

Show threadmonkeyjoeMar 9
Yep, they only ban users who cause issues within the community. Most of the ban logs say that they went into a community they don’t like, started things, got banned. Then they get mad.
Show threadEk-Hou-Van-BraaiMar 9

I’m not against AI, I use it a lot and it is useful, you just need to know what to use it for and to not trust it with anything serious.

But it’s not all positive AI is bad in many ways for me the privacy risks are huge and something people should worry about.

Wild to ban me for saying something bad about AI

Show threaddb0Mar 9
This was a mod-ban btw, so you seem to have annoyed the mod who’s moderating all those comms.
Show threadEk-Hou-Van-BraaiMar 9
Would like to at least know what I did to annoy them this much.
Show threaddb0Mar 9
Look’s who’s the common mod, and ping them?
Show threadEk-Hou-Van-BraaiMar 9

It’s @[email protected]

Care to help understand why I was banned from all those communities?

Show threadUnsung RoosterMar 9
Don’t bother, he’s an AI bro with AI bro brainrot
Show threadFuckAIFreeIsraelMar 9

Amen brother, fuck @[email protected] anyone with communities should ban this dipshit as “AI Troll” or “dbzer0 Troll” make sure you get all his accounts though or he’ll come back with a vengence.

Here’s a list:

Draconic NEO (@[email protected])

1.35K Posts, 863 Following, 244 Followers · Hello I'm Draconic NEO, most people just call me NEO or Draconic. I am a #furry who is into #linux and #opensource. I'm #AroAce please don't flirt with me it makes me uncomfortable. I don't really feel a gender (#Agender?) and don't really care what pronouns people use for me. Warning I tend to act a bit Silly. #dragon #dragons #dragonsofmastodon Disclaimer: Mastodon.social and Mastodon.world are limited, I'd advise against following me from those instances without a DM to let me know who you are because those instances often have spam accounts (Keep in mind the DM must be on my Matrix or another platform because the limit means I will not see it on Mastodon). If you don't and I can't figure out who you are I won't approve your follow. If you want to avoid this, I encourage migrating to a server that isn't limited.

Pawb.Fun - Pawbs, beans, and all things fluffy
Show threadFree Israel Fuck AIMar 9

He won’t unban you, he won’t even respond. Fucking coward is too scared to come here and face the music like the pedophile troll he is. @[email protected] why don’t you come out to play sweetie, I promise we won’t hurt you. Pinky promise

lol 😂

Show threadfuck_AstroturfingMar 9

All AI is the same you dipshit, dbzer0 are AI bros and this mod is just another pawn of the capitalist machine. He’s also a pedophile who loves AI porn of little girls

Yes @[email protected] you’ve been exposed

Show threadNoiseColor Mar 9

Some communities on Lemmy don’t want any pushback, any at all.

You can get banned for making benign comments on uncontroversial topics if the mod is in such a mood. That’s Lemmy.

Show threadEk-Hou-Van-BraaiMar 9
Atleast on Lemmy/PieFed we have communities like this we can call them out in, or use/create alternative communities on the same topic etc.
Show threadNoiseColor Mar 9
Lemmy is small. Like, it generally doesn’t matter if you get banned from some niche community. But when there so so few communities to begin with, mostly there are no alternative spaces.
Show threadMagnificentSteinerMar 9

I think that’s perfectly fine. It’s their community, they can do whatever they like with it.

I do think however that there should be an honest ban reason in the log to make it clear.

Show threadNoiseColor Mar 9
Yeah it’s their community exactly. But since Lemmy is so small, such actions hurt it even more.
Show threadwizardbeardMar 9

PTB. There have been some mods of the AI specific comms here on db0 that are more than a little ban happy, and who pre-emptively ban people for participating in anti-ai subs.

That said, we also have a number of users that have come to this sub to whine when they refuse to block the AI subs for themselves and just downvote everything from them.

Show threadGrimyMar 9
There’s a huge amount of Brigadoon related to AI content. People downvote and stalk the communities instead of just blocking them. I think the heavy handedness is justified, and I’ve even been on the wrong side of it.
Show threadGrailMar 9
Here on MULTIVERSE we ban AI communities because we’re a vegan instance, but I can understand someone feeling an ethical obligation to take a more active role in downvoting AI.
Show threadGrimyMar 9
Would you ban a user who felt an obligation to take a more active role in downvoting vegan content?
Show threadfuck_AstroturfingMar 9
Downvoting AI slop and putting down AI slop mods is an ethical obligation. Fuck @[email protected] oh did you know that loser is a femboy too? What a disgusting combo. I can just imagine that him as a disgusting middle aged man with a beard wearing a little skirt and thinking he looks fem when he doesn’t
Show threadGrimyMar 9
Obviously, the losers against this would be highly transphobic and homophobic. It must be rough having to create an other handful of alts each time you want your “contributions” to have any upvotes
Show threadFuckAIFreeIsraelMar 9
Calling someone out for being a pedophile or dressing like a girl is not homophobic nor transphobic, you’re a schizo loser if you think so. The mods here are also PTB.
Show threadGrimyMar 9
Nothing wrong with a guy dressing like a girl, you loser. I know it confuses you when you get a boner but boys in skirts are actually a really cool thing. This isn’t the platform for your puritanical insecurities.
Show threadFuckAIFreeIsraelMar 9
If you like them you’re probably gay just sayin. Nothing wrong with being gay but liking boys in skirts makes you kinda gay.
Show threadGrimyMar 9
You’re barking up the wrong tree if you think I have trouble admitting I’m kinda gay for femboys. You are a weak person bro, both mentally and probably physically.
Show threadFuckAIFreeIsraelMar 9
I can bench press 60 LBS, don’t make assumptions about people’s physical strength online or you’ll make yourself look stupid. I don’t like femboys, I like women only. Femboys are kinda gross. They’re men dressed up and pretending to be god’s most beautiful creation. It is disgraceful. And yes they are different from trans women. I wouldn’t date a trans woman but trans women are women, they’re not pretending like disgraceful femboys are.
Show threadAmnesigenicMar 9
60lbs is nothing, you are a joke
Show threadAmnesigenicMar 9
You’re definitely a pedophile
Show threadFuckAIFreeIsraelMar 9
No you are. I bet you have a lolicon anime wallpaper and body pillow in your room. I bet your body pillow has a hole in it so you can cum inside it.
Show threadAmnesigenicMar 9
Pure projection, you are a pillow-fucking pedophile