Copied from another comment of mine:

It seems as though you misunderstand how blocking instances and defederation work. If I am hosted on instance X and I block instance Y but don’t block instance Z, users from instance Y can still post onto communities hosted on instance Z and I will still see these posts. This is what I referred to when I said “subset of users from dbzer0 who think they should spread their instance’s values of AI content across all parts of the Fediverse”. Defederating does require an instance, and only by defederating from instance Y would the content made by instance Y users that is posted onto any instance become wholly filtered out for users on instance X.

Did you know that there are no instances* defederated from dbzer0? So apart from setting up and running your own instance to defederate**, there is no way of making your feed filter out the subset of users from dbzer0 who think they should spread their instance’s values of AI content across all parts of the Fediverse, whether or not it is welcome there? Did you also know that Fediseer, the default web tool for instances to document issues and endorsements of other instances, which incidentally is maintained by the admin of db0, shows that lemmy.dbzer0.com has received no censures whatsoever from other instances? Do you think that users who avidly use AI to generate visual content for their posts may also avidly use AI to generate their text posts and comments? Countless accounts could simply be 1s and 0s from a machine instead of any actual human soul behind it (wait, isn’t that why many Lemmings left Reddit?).

*barring instances with hidden blocklists

**or instead manually blocking every user from dbzer0, which would be futile as they continue to gain users

Damn bro just solved the Fermi Paradox with a Dilbert punchline

The rule of law says bad people should get all the power and be untouchable so we should just let the bad people remain unfettered while we suffer to their whims

Obscured By Clouds. Right in the period when the band was all working together and just before they got pompous

Sure, but don’t even ask about my ligma

My dogma defines my in-group, and my in-group can’t be wrong because then that would mean that I am wrong, which I categorically can’t be. And even if I was wrong, then I would no longer be part of my in-group. Therefore, your science and logic and proof must be wrong if it contradicts my dogma.

If they are needs, then none can be compromised.

A person should always aim for harm reduction. If an unwinnable situation were to arise, harm reduction statistically would favor the many for most scenarios. From a causal perspective, sad as it is to say, the casualties were not going to live past the situation; from this cold but pragmatic perspective, even something as invaluable as a person’s life is unfortunately not “needed” per se.

assuming that others view you as competent

That part does not apply, and I understand it to be part of the definition of Imposter Syndrome.

I’m in disbelief that someone with as much character as Jake Paul would be fraternizing with a miscreant such as that

Is it ok to deport the people who baselessly deport other people?

🎶 I’ll see you on the dark side of the Sun🎶

It is partially stemming from a capitalistic source.

Long personal vent linked here, feel free to ignore if you don’t care. Basically unless you’re a free therapist, you don’t have to read this.

Not the hero we deserve, but the hero we need