Advocating piracy is one thing, but now banning people for believing in copyright? That’s like banning people for following the law. That is banning people for following the law. What gives? And to think a while ago I declared I wouldn’t have any reason to not take their bans (or the motives behind them) seriously.
Are we trying to get world governments to ban Lemmy (or, worse, the fediverse)? Love the administrative decisions or hate them, such decisions will drag down the whole fediverse. Typically sites are defederated to protect the sites defederating them from liability. Will this be an example, or does this, out of convenience, not apply? Are we forgetting a large portion of the fediverse’s demographics consist of artists trying to make a damn living?
I guess it could functionally be an instance ban if literally every single comm moderator got together and banned a user from every single comm on an instance…
But I am not seeing that. I am seeing a slew of users getting banned from 2 or 3 comms focused on different kinds of AI-gen art, because they’ve been virulently anti-ai art in those comms and elsewhere.
Its also fairly common for a single person to be a mod of several smaller niche comms… and if the whole thing is that they’ve identified a person as combatative troll who breaks other various rules in other various places… then yeah, they just get put on a shit-disturber/troll blacklist, for those comms that are small and basically function as safe spaces for small groups.
As I understand it, as I read the modlog… these users you’ve included in your post screenshots and such are not literally banned from the entire dbzero instance, nor all its comms… if either of those were the case, you could see it in the modlogs.
Again, as I understand it… while modlogs obsure the name of the moderator or admin taking an action… all actions are otherwise detailed in full.
It’s more like a federation glitch. The modlogs don’t always represent a situation correctly. Hence what you said after that. On my end, it appears as multiple communities. So I stand corrected.
General best practice for viewing modlogs:
Go to the actual instance’s website and view their own modlog.
That’s why I provided the link to it my post a couple levels up. Sometimes silly stuff can happen if you don’t do it that way.
Also, for what its worth, I’m not the one throwing the single downvote on these more recent comments between us.