https://lemmy.dbzer0.com/post/48662871

https://lemmy.dbzer0.com/post/43560521

TL;DR: The dbzer0 community decided to start banning people for downvoting AI generated posts. They said they’d only ban people who come to a community and do mass downvotes, but Ace T’Ken downvoted four AI posts that showed up in the feed across a period of ten months, and was still banned from several communities by a prominent dbzer0 mod. There was also a side plot involving some person or group of people impersonating every major actor involved in the drama, which is why so many comments in the thread are removed.

There were several other drama threads related to the voting bans:

https://lemmy.dbzer0.com/post/50067209

https://lemmy.dbzer0.com/post/46410988

https://lemmy.dbzer0.com/post/49344640

I remember a few more discussions from back when all this was new, but didn’t have as easy a time finding them.

I haven’t experienced that personally but I trust you with My life, SatansMaggotyCumFart. You’ve always been right about these things before.

But doctor, I am Pagliacci!

dbzer0 definitely has a problem with banning people for voting

https://www.nbcnews.com/mach/science/einstein-showed-newton-was-wrong-about-gravity-now-scientists-are-ncna1038671

Einstein showed Newton was wrong about gravity

I find it quite sad that you don’t believe chocolate tastes good. I do, and the fact brings Me happiness, despite its subjectivity.

The belief in an objective reality is the source of all bigotries and nearly all oppressions. It’s the reason for religious genocides, transphobia, capitalism, and zionism. You believe in less reality than the people who do those things. You’re less realist. I want you to go further, be more radical, believe in no reality. I think you haven’t gone far enough yet.

Well, Donald Hoffman, the cognitive psychologist investigating perception of reality, has asserted that spacetime is a mental construct that simplifies our perception of the world around us so that it requires fewer resources to sustain. Since under Einstein gravity is curvature of spacetime, if true this means gravity is part of our interface too. There is something making people fall down ladders, but it’s not as simple as our mind perceives it to be, even for Einstein. Newtonian gravity and Aristotlean gravity have of course been entirely debunked and were thus “escaped”.

So yeah, gravity is fake. But gravity’s fakeness isn’t that important.

True, but that doesn’t make gravity all good. It puts gravity on about the same ethical standing as an abusive parent. If we can find a way to improve gravity, we should do it.

I don’t really care whether you see gravity as inescapable (though I’m glad the Wright brothers didn’t), but there are other “natural, inescapable laws” that are completely fake, and some people cause a lot of harm by attacking those who break them. And so I want you to be open to the concept of people accomplishing the impossible, so that you won’t be one of those people.

For example, gender essentialists claim that sex is a “natural, inescapable law”. And that makes them transphobic. Species essentialists claim that species is a “natural, inescapable law”, and not just a convenient social construct biologists use to make their jobs easier. And that makes them kinphobic.

I want you to open your mind to the impossible and question everything.

Not much. Oxygen is much lower on the list of priorities than capitalism and pluralphobia.

She just went to bed, so I’ll have to tell Her when Her timezone hits morning. In the meantime, if you want to learn about piefed you can check out https://piefed.social/ or https://multiverse.soulism.net/ and decide if you like the features better.

Personally, I’ve met the lead devs of both Lemmy and Piefed, and consider the lead dev of Piefed to be a much more pleasant and hardworking person, which explains why Piefed has so many more features. The Lemmy dev team spend most of their time arguing why Stalin’s homophobia wasn’t so bad, which explains why they don’t put out many feature updates.

Ah, that’s because you’re using Lemmy, which doesn’t support the feature.

If you use a PieFed instance and client such as MULTIVERSE, you’ll be able to see the pronouns field on a user’s page.

I’m gonna need you to edit that “he” to a “Her”, “They”, or “It”, in accordance with @[email protected]’s pronouns, which you can find by clicking on Her profile.

I do not believe the founding principles of MULTIVERSE are representative of the mainstream left, but you’re welcome to avoid our instance and users if you choose.

Many soulists believe in two different branches of soulist thought: scientific soulism and spiritual soulism. I disagree, I think magic is a science and spirituality can be a technology. But there are soulists who reject spiritual means of changing our perceptions, and there are spiritual soulists who do not use the scientific method. So to answer your question: sometimes.

Sounds like a good question for @[email protected]

Might it be because we only have two local posts so far?