(barring instances with hidden blocklists)
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. If somebody could set up an instance with this community’s values and filters in mind, I imagine that would be helpful to many of us. This instance could be adapted to defederate from other AI-spreading instances as well.
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.
*or instead manually blocking every user from dbzer0, which would be futile as they continue to gain users
[EDIT: Since many people seem confused, here is how blocking an instance works:
Given that instances X, Y, and Z are all federated with each other:
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/comment onto communities hosted on instance Z and I will still see these posts/comments.
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.]
Fuck off with purity tests for other instances. That’s how the community eats itself alive.
If you don’t like their comms, don’t subscribe them.
Signed, an occasional db0 user who hates AI.
It’s not their communities. It’s the AI content that a subset of pro-AI users bring onto other instance’s communities. Is this not clear in the post?
So you want to ban all users from that instance because you have a philosophical beef with some of those users?
It could be an instance such as the one I am hosted on, which hosts users but not communities, as the benefit is purely for browsing.
Do you have an effective alternative to avoiding AI content coming from instances specifically made to output AI content? If one more person says “just block the instance” I might scream.
I’d have thought the users here at c/Fuck_AI would be more anti-AI.
You're going to have to show evidence of this.
They also have communities about AI. That's very different from "an instance specifically made to output AI content". Block those communities and move on.
Is everybody on the Fediverse incapable of reading? I’ve already explained multiple times in this thread why blocking doesn’t work and/or isn’t relevant
Block communities, is what I said, not the instance. I've successfully blocked a bunch of communities (such as the community on my home instance dedicated to AI shitposting). I don't know why you seem to have trouble doing the same.