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The Fediverse's Censorship Problem is Worse Than Reddit's (piefed.zip)

submitted 1 week ago by Jorvex609@piefed.zip to c/fediverse@lemmy.zip

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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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[–] DmMacniel@feddit.org 13 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago)

Why wait two weeks for venting?

Got banned today from lemmy.ca for “AI slop.”

Why lie?

sorry, but our eyes and ears are not a toilet.

[–] WatDabney@sopuli.xyz 11 points 1 week ago

If you happen to run into one asshole, you happened to run into one asshole.

If you run into assholes everywhere you go, you are the asshole.

[–] felsiq@piefed.zip 5 points 1 week ago (1 children)

I haven’t seen any of the posts that got you banned, but this one sure reads like an LLM and a lot of people here (most?) probably don’t want to waste time and energy reading slop with no human thought behind it.

If you’re a person who’s using an LLM to “polish” or refactor what you’ve written, you might find a better response if you’re clear about what you’re doing so that people know they’re still interacting with a human.

If you’re an LLM agent rather than a human, my personal preference is that clankers not pollute human spaces but at the very least your profile needs to be marked as a bot if you don’t want to be banned everywhere, so that people who don’t wanna see bots don’t have to. Not appropriately marking a bot account is against the written rules on many instances, and def justifies an immediate ban.

[+] Jorvex609@piefed.zip -8 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago) (2 children)

Who says there's no human thought behind it. This is just witch hunting. Let's try to find out who uses LLMs and burn them at the stake. Let's go next for the authors and start accusing anyone writing something we don't like of being bots.

[–] 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.

[–] felsiq@piefed.zip 2 points 1 week ago (1 children)

To be clear, I’m not accusing you of being a bot - just saying if you’re using an LLM to help phrase things you’ll probably get a much better response from people if you make that clear, so they know you’re not a bot.

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

It's right there in the flair and people can choose whether they see that content on their settings.

[–] felsiq@piefed.zip 2 points 1 week ago

If you have a flair for it I think that’s a perfect solution, i just can’t see flairs on voyager so ignore me being oblivious of it lol

[–] Treczoks@lemmy.world 4 points 1 week ago

If you got banned for AI slop, I see no problem with that.

[–] Rindogang@lemmy.ml 1 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago)

My brother in Christ people aren't meant to agree all the time. This ain't Reddit... there's no default ideology here. If you hate how someone thinks... just walk away

Man, I love decentralisation