I don’t have an issue with this instance being pro-AI, but I find it weird as fuck how harshly skeptics are treated

Then you check some of those communities and there's like less than 10 posts in them.

There's more banned people than content.

the whole "if you don't like the content, don't downvote, but just ignore / block it" is really cringe

That mods/admins can even see who is downvoting is, by far, my least favorite thing about Lemmy.

My first interaction with davel@lemmy.ml was him threatening to ban me over downvoting his comments.

One of the first things which made me look into what this power tripping bastard is and yeah, a Russian pretending to be an American who's since been avoiding any communities they're not a mod on.

Dude says things like "reality has a well known Russian propaganda bias" while pretending to be American while supporting Putin.

Lemmy is infested with Russians

The same user quietly banned me from all their communities for being a "Zionazi apologist" (which couldn't be further from the truth) and it took me over 3 months to even notice.

They are just a special kind of idiot and I hope they don't ever get to mod communities that are actually relevant.

Honestly. Doing this when someone makes dozens of downvotes is ridiculous and stupid. Doing this with a single downvote is… I can't even begin to fathom how unimaginably stupid and ridiculous that is.

This was 2 mods that banned you across all the comms they mod, not a site-ban at least, though sitebans look like this too because of a workaround in place to ensure that a site-banned user's content is purged (or something like that)

It's possible they hit the wrong button/inputted wrong script command hence the "appeal granted" thing. I would reach out to the mod of those comms

I also got banned from some communities for "systematic downvoting". I'd estimate I've downvoted maybe 5 or so posts by a moderator promoting a harmful diet, which was apparently enough for being "systematic". The mod also banned me from other random communities I had never interacted with in the first place. But oh well, nothing of value was lost for me. Just kinda sucks that mods can use this to make it seem like their statements are less controversial than they are.

Where do yall get this ban notification stuff do you pay for some kind of lemmy Bloomberg terminal or?

Haha, just noticed I got banned from 2 communities, presumably for commenting in here (they are both dead communities I've never been to). Someone is a very petty and now blocked mod.

PTB

I've had very inconsistent moderation experiences on dbzer0

I'm sure some were because of this guy.

I just block the comms I don't care about, can recommend.

Including that AI generated low effort crap. I don't get the point of sharing that stuff, when you can generate your own if you want. But nowadays I don't get many things anymore.

Whoa, I thought only the conservative mods were pulling this

If I get banned for a downvote I dont want to have anything to do with that community anyway.