Was recently banned from a whole bunch of DB0 communities for, as best as I can gather, downvoting once when I viewed by All (potentially accidentally while scrolling).
Important notes:
- I don't use scripts.
- I don't mass-downvote Communities. If I see a post I generally don't like when browsing All, I may downvote one post, block the Community and move on.
- Some of the communities I was banned from don't have any posts in them so I wouldn't have been able to downvote anything.
- Of all of these Communities, in my history I downvoted one post in one of them. Voting in this manner is not vote manipulation. It's quite literally a feature of the platform and as a mod of another Community, I would consider it pretty good etiquette.
- One of my bans reads "Appeal Granted, not a brigading member" but I'm still banned.
- I don't troll.
WTF is going on here?
EDIT - Updated Info from the conversation below: In the initial image, you can see two "ban waves."
The 10 bans three months ago stem from a single downvote in one Community. It was @[email protected] See here: https://discuss.tchncs.de/post/34853477
I was called out by name for a single downvote and culled from a score of Communities I did not participate in by them.
The other bans from two months ago are from four total downvotes over a 10-month timeframe in one Community.
I have also stated in this thread that I don't have issues with AI-gen images, but there are shoddy ones and well-done ones.
EDIT 2: Now unbanned from the ten Communities listed as "3 months ago" in my initial image, but have been banned from three more because of this thread with the reason given being "self-proclaimed anti-AI brigader" which are two things I didn't claim to be. God dammit Lemmy...
That's very capitalist of you
I'm using their own methods against them. No regrets.
Stealing from the rich to give to the poor. You're distributing the wealth to the poor, right?
I sponsor a family with Compassion International. (https://www.compassion.com/sponsor_a_child/) One of the better .orgs, but I don't like how they don't give the money directly to the families themselves. They give to the community, which is fine, but they should be more specific about that. I signed up before I knew those details, but I get such special letters from the child that I support w this program, that I don't wanna cancel.
I sponsor two different families through Unbound. (https://www.unbound.org/) One of the top orgs for sponsoring a child. Both families are in Guatemala. I exchange letters and videos with both families. And this org actually sends 90% of donations directly to sponsored families, giving them control to meet their specific needs rather than funneling aid through preset programs.
I donate to the elementary and middle schools where I used to work as an affective needs teacher before I retired. Both schools serve children in underserved communities. I also regularly visit local thrift stores to buy children’s clothing to donate to the elementary school. The clothes are kept in the principal’s office and used when students have accidents (bathroom, playground, P.E., or art class, etc.) so they can change at school. Many parents can’t leave work during the day, so this helps prevent embarrassment for the child and keeps them comfortable without disrupting their learning.Please call your local elementary school and see if they need donations like this as well, and ask what sizes they need. Solid color clothes with no logo or graphics are preferred.
I buy children's books for the Free Little Library that I have in front of my house so that it is always stocked with books. I also buy and donate books to the Free Little Library in front of my former schools.
I'm a member of the Red Cross and I volunteer there by transporting donated blood from donation centers to hospitals. I do that 2 days a week, and that takes gas.
I donate to the teacher's union that I was a part of.
I also donate to a local Socialist Workers Party office in my city. And regularly donate to their main org as well. I also started and maintain SWP comms here on Lemmy.
I also keep up a spare room in my house for friends (or friends of friends) that need a quick place to stay in order to get back on their feet for whatever life throws at them.
I don't have a lot of extra, but what I have goes to those projects.
Now list what you do, friend. Because I bet you earn way more money than I do.