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

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 🤷

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...

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.

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

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

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.

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

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.

The dbzer0 admin could step up.

This is why moderation is needed. Be normal.

Anything's possible when you make shit up