Was recently banned from a whole bunch of DB0 communities for, as best as I can gather, downvoting once when I viewed by All (potentially accidentally while scrolling).
Important notes:
- I don't use scripts.
- I don't mass-downvote Communities. If I see a post I generally don't like when browsing All, I may downvote one post, block the Community and move on.
- Some of the communities I was banned from don't have any posts in them so I wouldn't have been able to downvote anything.
- Of all of these Communities, in my history I downvoted one post in one of them. Voting in this manner is not vote manipulation. It's quite literally a feature of the platform and as a mod of another Community, I would consider it pretty good etiquette.
- One of my bans reads "Appeal Granted, not a brigading member" but I'm still banned.
- I don't troll.
WTF is going on here?
EDIT - Updated Info from the conversation below: In the initial image, you can see two "ban waves."
The 10 bans three months ago stem from a single downvote in one Community. It was @[email protected] See here: https://discuss.tchncs.de/post/34853477
I was called out by name for a single downvote and culled from a score of Communities I did not participate in by them.
The other bans from two months ago are from four total downvotes over a 10-month timeframe in one Community.
I have also stated in this thread that I don't have issues with AI-gen images, but there are shoddy ones and well-done ones.
EDIT 2: Now unbanned from the ten Communities listed as "3 months ago" in my initial image, but have been banned from three more because of this thread with the reason given being "self-proclaimed anti-AI brigader" which are two things I didn't claim to be. God dammit Lemmy...
Meh, I actually have a very successful side business selling things with AI slop all over them. So there is something I make with AI: money. I make more money from that than my retirement check. I steal from the lying capitalist megacorps. lol
That's embarrassing. I'm surprised you would admit that even in pseudonymity.
Embarrassing for you, maybe. Obviously, not embarrassing for me.
I’m just riding the wave while it lasts. I don’t treat it like a real job. More like skimming cream off the top while the corrupt capitalist system lumbers along. I know the window for making money this way is probably short, but that just makes it sweeter.
The megacorps are raking in billions, and I get to sneak in, steal the product that they've already stolen, and laugh all the way to my tiny bank. They build the machines, pump out the slop, and flood the world with it. I just show up with a spoon.
Picture a giant bull in a field, stuffing its face. Flies swarm around it, laying eggs in the shit. And I'm a little scruffy bird perched on its back, snacking on the flies and soaking up the ride. The bull does all the work. I just feast on the ecosystem it creates.
I grow fat off the slop that megacorp capitalists overproduce. I use them, instead of them using me. That's the game, friend. Delicious.
You're fighting a fight you can't win. AI isn't going anywhere. I'm just adapting to the situation. And laughing.
"Fuck you, i got mine"-ass comment.
Despicable.
Me taking glee in stealing from a capitalist megacorp is not a "fuck you, I got mine" comment. You can do the exact same thing I'm doing.
I like and use AI. You can too, but you choose not to. That's all on you.
You're taking glee in stealing from artists.
You abandon your fellow humans in pursuit of gargling capitalist balls.
You are Fuck you; got mine-ing the humans that the capitalists are feeding to the machine.
I have no respect for that, nor you.
I'm not stealing from any artists. I'm stealing from the capitalist megacorporations that stole from artists. Also, throughout my entire career I worked as a professional artist.
This is a pro-AI instance. Get used to it.
No, because you can do the same thing I am doing. Nothing is stopping you, except for your hate of AI.
I don't care. You don't pay my bills. :)