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.

Message from Draconic who did the ban: "[The] ban was a mistake and will be removed."

I'm locking the post now because it's attracting a lot of trolls.

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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.

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.

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.

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.

I would like to point out that the troll accounts being made to spam Draconic's name, especially after banning someone, is probably part of the reason why moderation is strict.

Draconic in the last month has had several users mass harass them, for either not supporting Israel or saying they don't mind what users do on their private computers.

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

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