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.

Looks like someone hates PieFed users.

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.

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.

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)

https://lemmy.zip/modlog/4125

https://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%

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 🤷

dbzer0 is a pro-AI instance (not corporate AI like ChatGPT or Grok), maybe that's why?

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.

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

@draconic_neo@lemmy.dbzer0.com

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

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.

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.

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.

This was a mod-ban btw, so you seem to have annoyed the mod who's moderating all those comms.

I think the mod might have jumped the gun a bit too fast on that. But I don't know the full story nor am I in the mood to go digging.

Would like to at least know what I did to annoy them this much.

Look's who's the common mod, and ping them?

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.

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.

It's @draconic_neo@lemmy.dbzer0.com .

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

Yeah it's their community exactly.
But since Lemmy is so small, such actions hurt it even more.

Odds are high that user blocked you along with the ban.

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 (getting banned for posting in fuck AI).

I don't know why the autocorrect gave me that but I'm keeping it.

@draconic_neo@lemmy.dbzer0.com your input would be appreciated here.

Banning people for posts they make in an entirely different community should be wrong. But sadly there’s no good way to enforce that.

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

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.

Isn't the db0 instance anarchist not socialist?

Would you ban a user who felt an obligation to take a more active role in downvoting vegan content?

anarchism is also called libertarian socialism

we ban AI communities because we’re a vegan instance

Is there some sort of natural enmity between vegans and AI enthusiasts I'm not aware of?

no. it's nonsense.

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.

The dbzer0 admin could step up.

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 and fun thing. This isn't the platform for your puritanical insecurities.

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.

Yeah because you're a rational and non fascist observer, "FreeIsrael"

And there's no such thing as an anarchocapitalist because it's an innate oxymoron.

yawn

I don't think you replied to the right comment

libertarian socialism is a term from the 19th century

Users should still be allowed to block communities after being banned from them.

I think it's something along the lines of:

A lot of vegans are vegan for ethical reasons, i.e. animal products are cruel to animals and tend to harm the environment. So it makes sense they'd be against something so power-hungry which is also destroying the environment so we can have arrangements of pixels that look pretty I guess.