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Remember when the whole point of leaving Reddit was escaping heavy-handed moderation and echo chambers? Yeah, about that.

I've been banned more times in the fediverse in a few months than I ever was in years on Reddit. At least on Reddit, the rules exist and you can see them—even if enforcement is spotty, you know what you're supposedly violating. Here, it's whatever mood the local mod is in that day.

Got banned today from lemmy.ca for "AI slop." There's no such rule anywhere on the instance. The real reason? My post didn't fit their narrow ideological box. No debate, no warning, no discussion—just the banhammer.

The fediverse promised freedom from corporate censorship. What we got instead is a bunch of small fiefdoms run by virtue-signaling mods who silence anyone who steps one toe outside their approved narrative. It's more fragmented, more arbitrary, and honestly more authoritarian than the platform we all supposedly fled.

Decentralization without a real commitment to free expression is just decentralization of censorship.

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[–] CTDummy@aussie.zone 2 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago) (1 children)

You post AI coded stuff asking people to test it to see if it’s “worth investing time in”, you don’t even type the text for those post. It’s not even a witch hunt, it’s blatantly obvious. No one wants to engage with someone who doesn’t appear to bother even typing out their own post. Why should people, put in any effort to engage with you or “your” content if you can’t even be bothered yourself?

You continually get negative feedback for this and then whinge that it’s “worse than reddit” because plenty on communities here don’t want it descending into chat agents talking to chat agents and try to frame it as “”censorship””. Grow up. You want meaningful engagement on your projects/posts, put in meaningful effort. If you can’t post text without running it through an LLM first you likely haven’t got anything meaningful to contribute anyway.

[–] Jorvex609@piefed.zip -1 points 1 week ago (1 children)

The post has an AI flair so if you don't want to read this content you can just block it also stop policing what people can or cannot do ill use AI as much as a want what are you going to persecute next spellcheckers? Give me a break.

[–] CTDummy@aussie.zone 2 points 1 week ago

State it clearly. None of your post have any flair and I checked on two separate clients.

Telling you that people won’t engage with lazy slop posting isn’t “policing” you, it’s telling you the reality of a situation you’re trying to lie to yourself is censorship. No one owes you engagement or a platform. Spellcheckers are entirely different to LLM. Only a slop poster would confuse or try to deliberately conflate the two.

Sure do so, myself and a good portion of communities who view this level of use/laziness similarly will keep doing what’s been happening to that content thus far. Just don’t come whinging about it or trying to kid yourself it’s “censorship” when you get banned.