Yeah, that's weird. I wish people would be more descriptive in ban reasons. As the story is so far, it sounds like PTB to me. I get the impression from others on Lemmy that midwest is pretty ban-heavy tho.
Dbzer0 banned me like two years ago or so already anyways.
Wow, this sounds like you are ban evading then. Hmmmm...
It seems Lemmy overcomplicates this by letting people see votes, though like I said, I haven’t gone about finding out how.
Yeah. There's a very active Lemmy poster who actually screenshots people's history of how many downvotes their comments have. He posts it to make his point. Bad form and he only does it to try to shame people and says variations of "See? We can't take this person seriously, look how many downvotes he has on his record. Obviously people disagree with him! So you should too!"
That right there is how downvoting is getting weaponized. He's done it to me. Several times. And the posts are still up. The fact that that guy, and several others, will look up how many of your comments have been downvoted, screenshot it, post it, and tell everyone how much you are unliked, is pure bullying. And he takes so much glee in it.
Another reason that I think voting should be done away with. If "views" wanna be tallied it up but we can't vote up or down, so we know how active something is, that's fine. But too many people weaponize downvoting/upvoting here.
Yeah, opponents of AI do, it’s making that worse for everyone.
But that's any tech advancement. Friend, I was a professional artist for a living for 35 years. I'm not gonna cry about someones writing and art gig disappearing. They are no more special than anyone who has to work at a job they aren't passionate about.
You AREN'T going to change anything. Brah, the vast majority of the population doesn't even care.
Do you think that Jeremiah Boondock, working at a gas station in Missouri, while doing tile jobs on the weekends, trying to make sure he can pay rent, cares if his box of macaroni and cheese has AI picture on the cover!?
Do you think he gives a fuck that you suspect some pokemon art wasn't drawn by hand?
Not only doesn't he care, he's not even aware of it.
Working a job you love?! The fuck? Most people have no idea what that is even like. It's not an option for the majority of the world. Never has been.
I'm not saying any of that is good. But crying about ai art is the most blatant variation I've seen of the saying, "first world problems."
Oh my God! LemmyFurryCyberpunkEatMyAssForPopcorn can't draw some anime for a living like he has wanted to since he was 10 years old!! What. The. Fuck.
Yeah, ok, sucks. But you boycotting on Lemmy isn't even going to make an echo of an impression. You can push your downvote button as hard as you can, stop buying the DnD guides that you suspect used AI for the Elf in the background.
No one will care. Nothing is going to happen. In fact, you'll stop the boycotting because there is AI so good you don't even know it's ai. You can only tell ai when it's bad. Good ai isn't noticed. Brah, your video game ad already used AI and you didn't know.
Friend, things are gonna get way worse, before they get better. So what I'm doing is just preparing for it. You cry, I'll prepare and adapt.
But yeah, you be sure to hit that downvote arrow as hard as you can whenever you see something AI on Lemmy. That'll show 'em! Right?!
Then move on. Seems like that community wouldn't be a good fit for you anyway, so no loss. Basically you are missing out on reading articles that annoy you. Wear the ban as a badge of honor, not shame.
I've been banned--and I am not even kidding or exaggerating--for "it's Universal Monk!" Yes, banned because of my fucking reputation. Not because of anything I did in the community, never posted article, commented or even voted. Many communities I've never even heard of. But I've seen reasons of "UM," "Troll Universal Monk", etc.
And you know what horrible horrible thing I did? I proudly voted third party (socialist) in the election. Which is more accepted now, but a few months ago, I was called a traitor daily. Still called that regularly. lol
So yeah, some mods and posters are power-hungry babies. But for the most part if they are like that, then you don't wanna be part of that community anyway.
I hated Biden (before it was cool to do!). So I stayed out of communities that kissed his ass. I didn't read articles that kissed is ass. Why would I go to some pro-Biden community if I'm anti-Biden?
I think Furries are fucking crazy. So I don't go to Furry communities or get upset if I were somehow banned from one.
Why would you go to some pro-meat community, if you are anti-meat? You know every article is going to annoy you. You should have blocked it even before you got banned.
Which is why I'm all for votes being gone entirely. That way none of it matters...because none of it matters. :)
Obviously many of us have it better in the US than most of the world, that doesn’t mean we can’t complain if it’s actively getting worse and harder to live.
Of course not. Yes, homelessness, rent, etc, those are real issues! And likely to get worse. For sure. And worth working on solutions.
Being mad because SkateboardCyberpunkFurry999 can't pursue art as a passion and draw naked anime all day because ai slop is posted on dbzer0, seems like an inane thing to cry about. And I am seeing a lot of crying about it. lmao
Lemmy is already like this, even more so than Reddit. The fact that people come here because they think Reddit is right-wing is hilarious to me. Reddit is one of most leftist places online. And extreme about it. The fact that people come here because they think Reddit is "right-leaning" shows you just how insulated people want to be by coming here.
Most people stay here because they want more extreme insulation. The few that come here thinking it's more open and less censorship find out real quick, that's not true. I saw a post in a casual non-political community about a guy talking about taking a walk and enjoying the weather.
Comments immediately combusted into posters talking about Trump and Musk. LMAO
I don't know what that means.
Why do you keep sticking around and reading shit you don't like? And for most, you can tell by the title if it's gonna be something you are interesting in reading.
How about you read it, think to yourself, "that fucking sucks" and move on. Why do you have to rate it with a vote? Why are you trying to let people know you didn't like it?
Can Lemmy even shadow-ban tho? I wasn't aware that was a thing.