Summary:
I downvoted pro-AI comments in a post in leftymemes community. It was LLM generated polandball comic (Which is objectively pathetic as fuck) that showed up on my feed, blocked couple of users who I thought were unhinged, and have blocked the whole instance on my client after realizing how rabid these morons are.
I didn't go looking for AI posts like a vigilante.
One user in question got miffed for being downvoted and banned me from places they moderate.
Having considered things for a day, I would say that I think @MysticMushroom1776@lemmy.dbzer0.com probably was overzealous banning the OP from all those comms over downvotes. That's assuming all they did was down vote some comments in that post.
If they were serially downvoting a bunch is posts in those comms then that's that.
But I don't otherwise find the anti-anti-ai rules on dbzer0 to be onerous. I criticize AI fairly often, I just don't do it in the pro-ai comms. Leftymemes is funny territory since it isnt explicitly a pro-ai comm, even if the instance overall is. I do think all comma should post all their rules in sidebar. It isn't enough to assume Instance rules are also included, since those aren't immediately visible to a federated user checking the sidebar.
There is no instance rule against criticism of AI on db0. Being "pro AI" is not a blank cheque for authoritarian behavior against anyone who isn't sucking genAI's malformed cock.
This happens frequently all over db0, and not including explicitly AI communities. What is happening is that the people that run AI communities have to deal with anti-AI people in the explicitly AI communities, but then the instance in general uses that as a cover to overreact and act like assholes in other communities that are not explicitly AI.
What needs to happen is that they just need to stop being little shits and just make an instance rule and ensure each community includes it in the rules. Instead of having secret rules, they just need to make it explicit and then people can know what to expect.
Yeah, of course I don't know what OP was really doing there, I'm just going off what they claim to have done.
I haven't been around leftymemes, but to me, it would not have been obvious that a leftymemes community is pro centralized turbocapitalist AI. But I guess each to their own. It's just a very random pairing.
And I really wish communities would put down their rules like law and only execute rules that are actually written.