I disagree with how a lot of that thread was moderated, and I do think that a permaban was a heavy-handed. Not that you weren't necessarily entirely without fault.

I'd say it's a combo of BPR and PTB

db0 is pro slop so ydi

it is kind of fucked that the post in question is a repost of a bot's repost of a reddit post of ai shit. look at that pile behind him, is it supposed to be money or uno cards or fuckin what

but their instance their rules

Is criticizing the AI trend and its adopters in any manner always against db0/comm rules?

I posted two comments, one criticism and one a question to another commenter. None palpatine reaction images. Both were deleted.

YDI.

You can complain all you like in here, feel free.

Different communities have different purposes and different moderation guidelines. So I think this is a ridiculous take. The lefty memes comm is of course going to be seen by certain people as "propaganda", but it's not for them, it's for leftists. If other folks also enjoy it then great, but if not, no big deal.

You can’t say you’re against disinfo if you’re knowing and intentionally promulgating it and abetting its usage. They also didn’t even remove the Reddit watermark.

(So) what?? We have no rules against reposting AI generated images in that community. What AI images have I ever posted to FvD? None, zero, sfa... unless they were the subject of a debunking article. So it was just a bullshit troll comment afaik.

But we do have an instance rule that says "Fuck around and find out", a community rule in Lefty Memes that says "1. Socialist Unity in the form of mutual respect and good faith interactions is enforced here" and finally " 3. No liberalism, (right-wing) revisionism or reactionaries."

This is why I don’t assign identities unto myself, because you criticize one action done wrong by leaders of an ideology or movement and bam! you’re shut out of it completely. They’ve lost the aid of an ally and progress is impeded by being shorted a participant trying to correct the course.

Also you:

I'm not feeling a lot of allyship vibes from that tbh.

The reason you got a permaban is because the anti-ai crowd usually can't stop themselves from banging on about it. If you agree to not post bullshit troll comments in the community again then I'll consider reducing the ban.

YDM. Go be an annoying liberal somewhere else and learn how to follow community/instance rules ❤️

Mmm, sorry. I agree in principle, but that was definitely outside of community rules.

That makes it YDI, even though it seems a permaban was issued. That could matter, because this could have been your first offense, and that's a heavy handed action with no malice in the comment removed.

But if it isn't your first offense, or it was compounded after the fact with comments, messages, or other events that exacerbate the original rule breaking, a permaban could be justified.

While I understand that the concept of responding to a meme with a meme being rule breaking is one that isn't exactly clear in those rules, I believe that a reasonable person could tell that the meme used in response is one that is commonly used in a dismissive and/or condescending manner. The subject of the meme image, and the "irony" that meme conveys is not close to the line, it's a pretty blunt put down.

Since it's in meme form as well, it isn't engaging, it's just an offhand, smug response. Within the rules of that community, that is absolutely a removable comment.

I rarely do this, but I disagree with a lot of the established rules of that community, and have it blocked partially because of their specific rules and moderation policies. While that's off topic for this community, I want to make it clear that I would, on an emotional response level, have preferred this be power tripping. But it just wasn't.

YDI. This is an anarchist, copyleft instance. We don't value the capitalist idea of intellectual property. Take that neoliberal bullshit back to the centrist safe spaces.

YDI. It's a leftist community. Stop brigading and read the rules.