You’ll have no trouble blocking AI here. This instance federated with almost all others and leaves it up to you to block them how you want. I will say db0 is my favorite instance so far.
Why is it your fav?
And I also don’t love how ai images go into all other communities here though but I prefer the piracy
For one it has a cool name, the mods here don’t cause much drama (that I know of), the users don’t brigade threads like with Hexbear, and piracy is celebrated unlike other websites. Ultimately I hope you find what you’re looking for even if it’s not this place
EDIT: Almost forgot. /0 doesn’t censor what you read like with lemmy.ml (e g. “bitch” reads as removed).
brigade threads like with Hexbear
Gondor has called for aid?! Rohan will answer!
As a more serious response: we… don’t actually do that. It’s not a coordinated thing. There’s no Secret Hexbear Discord Cabal where we congregate and conspire to raid an instance and be dickheads. It’s organic content from real people.
Very early on (years before federation and the Reddit exodus) we made a decision to remove downvotes from our instance. We were having a serious problem with trans users being anonymously bullied by a small number of bad actors downvoting all their content. So, we purged those assholes’ accounts and turned downvotes off. The intent was to encourage a culture of active participation by de-anonymizing disagreement. If you want to disagree with something on Hexbear, you need to say it out loud in public.
Post-federation, other instances interpreted that as “brigading”. It isn’t. If we see something we think is bad, we tell you, instead of just pressing the “I Disagree” button. I understand that isn’t to everybody’s taste, and I don’t blame anybody for blacklisting our Lemmy instance—we intentionally buck the trend of passive scrolling through social media. If you just want to share some memes and have a lark, Hexbear probably isn’t for you. And that’s fine! That’s what’s cool about Lemmy—you can just shut off a community you don’t like!
(And, anticipating responses: yes, I am aware that there’s a small segment of Hexbears who seem to enjoy inter-instance drama. That’s true of all instances, though. We regularly see the same kind of behavior from visitors back home, too. But, we’ve got a culture of being extremely vocal. So our assholes are loud, too. And if something is organically popular enough to show up cross-instance, they’ll dogpile on it. Sorry about that.)
