They will also delete any comments that complain about AI at all, even though there is no rule against it.
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After second look, that’s not entirely true, but they definitely have a trigger finger for it and leave plenty of other “off-topic” comments.
Considering the amount of posts deleted, it should have just been locked instead of nuking comments with a negative view of AI
Here’s the thread in the screenshot:
https://lemmy.dbzer0.com/post/43426671/18476015
Also, here you can see other’s seem to think this was an attempt to silence dissent (though, I don’t think that this coming from drag is a great point for it):
https://lemmy.ca/post/43313594
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Just look at this completely insane comment from an instance admin:
wait, you can’t have been banned from there from just downvoting slop…
According to modlogs that’s the case
Based on the screenshot, they were mostly banned from GenAI communities.
Which seems like a rational response, because they don’t want GenAI images in their feed, and now those communities won’t be in their feed.(edit- maybe not lol, I should learn more about activitypub)
As much as a downvote feels like a “fuck you” button, it’s not really productive to downvote a community’s content on principle. That’s what the block button is for.
Banning a user does not remove that community’s content from their feed.
Definitely, provided that’s what actually happened.
I would agree that it’s a rational response as a way to protect the community from that kind of behavior.
Huh. I don’t know why I assumed a ban worked both ways. My bad!
No big. There’s a lot of idiosyncrasies to Lemmy that are unintuitive. I wouldn’t expect everyone to be familiar with all of them.