A random awful.systems user posted the recent disinfo about the FAF using LLMs for moderation. I went in and tried to clarify the situation, and I admit I got kinda upset when they kept ignoring my statements in order to be snarky. Eventually I believed we reached an understanding but I was sadly mistaken which I should have imagine as awful.systems residents kept downvoting all my replies.
As I finished writing a post to explain our official instance policy, I noticed they just jumped to defederation anyway, the reason being...the same disinfo I just went through a lot of effort to debunk. They just called my debunking of the disinfo as "DARVO" which is just disgusting trivialization of harasser behaviour by @dgerard, but I digress.
Anyway I finished my post and once I posted it in our instance, I thought they would at least allow me simply to link to it to provide what we actually believe.
Lol, nope, instant delete and ban
Here's their charming admin casually admitting that even though we explicitly told them this is not what we're doing, they just going to disbelieve and make up their own headcanon.
Anyway, I shouldn't be surprised, dgerard has been known to spread disinfo, so this is just more of the same.
I generally don't particularly see anything wrong with this. Spam and harassment is a weak point on lemmy and we're all just coasting on good faith that dedicated actors won't abuse it. Having tools to detect harassing isn't a bad thing, especially when they mention the exact cases they're trying to handle. At the end of the day, you need to decide if you trust your admins to handle this appropriately. If you don't, then you can always switch servers or open your own.