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…

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.

Oh. I read those all as different people. My bad.

They’re still going to try. Russia already has, and they’re the home of Marxism-Leninism.

“Anti-AI troll” appears in more than just those two. That’s shorthand for being concerned with copyright.

It’s 100% possible to block a website in one country that comes from another country. It doesn’t affect the website in its own country, but it still prevents the website from being usable in the country that blocked it.

In the past, I too may have said he’s probably not aware of the fediverse, but then a fediverse mod blew up a fertility clinic a few weeks ago. That at least puts us all on the far edges of the NSA’s radar. Even Kiwi Farms has never produced any mass saboteurs.

The artist doesn’t need to be an artist-for-profit for it to apply. They just need to be someone who can say they spent all day on an art piece. The incentive for that goes away when it amounts to something that other people can enjoy without any boundaries.

When a government blocks a website in a country, they do so by registering the website’s name on a list of websites held by the internet providers. They can do this to any website federated with a certain website they want blocked until they’re all blocked. They have blocked email providers before, if you want a rough model of how this would work.

I counted way more than two communities. That’s often said to mean it’s an instance ban.

In case people missed it (I will assume good faith here), “anti-AI troll” is another way of saying “this person is concerned about copyright”.

People would think that not remembering that copyright is more than just about the distribution.

The fact there are a few entries that have both “anti-AI troll” and “copyright apologia” as motives suggests the person was engaging in both.

Whole services have shut down because they don’t support copyright. YouTube’s very first legal battle had to do with copyright. Discord shuts down several servers a day because those servers violate copyright. Scientology exists solely because of the power of copyright law. Copyright enforcement is quite big.

And you don’t think Trump would apply a stunt like that to the fediverse? He currently has a program where the government vets immigrants for their social media posts when they sign up for American citizenship. I would dare pray someone moving to America who has a Lemmy profile doesn’t get found out as a lemming.

My surprise lies in the fact there’s a difference between being anti-copyright and banning people for being pro-copyright.

Copyright is more than just about the distribution. Copyright laws…

1. Encourage credit to be given, when people often otherwise not give credit
2. Prevent people from making money from something that is given away for free
3. Prevent people from making fake versions of a book, like what happened to the fifth Harry Potter book
4. Through all of this maintain incentive for artists to make art

I counted way more than two communities.

In case people missed it (I will assume good faith here), “anti-AI troll” is another way of saying “this person is concerned about copyright”.

I counted a dozen communities where this happened. Typically, when someone is banned from multiple communities for the same reason simultaneously, an admin is involved and that it might be an instance ban in disguise. Is this wrong?

I counted a dozen communities where this happened. Typically, when someone is banned from multiple communities for the same reason simultaneously, an admin is involved and that it might be an instance ban in disguise. Is this wrong?

That was a mod, not an admin. We didn’t do shit.

A mod banned the individual from a dozen communities?

What the hell are you even trying to do, anymore? like genuinely, i have no idea what you’re trying to aim for.

It’s just everyday commentary. I don’t see where the confusion is. Everything I’ve said reflects something that concerns me.

edit: Also fuck copyright.

Using someone’s work without their permission is exploitation. People have to spend time out of their day to make something creative, so coattail riding off of them takes away the incentive to make the art, which interferes with the artistic process. The ancient Romans even knew enough to have a concept of copyright. In the very least, people should be giving credit to the artists, as you would when you are gifted something.

I’ve never had any of the names described above.

The law can take down the fediverse. Well, suit yourself then.

Also not sure how one can do apologia without believing in what they’re saying.