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Mastodon instance bans "techbros" and "AI fanaticism"

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A Mastodon instance called sigmoid.social has established strict content guidelines and values, explicitly opposing extremism, discrimination, and disruptive behavior, including "techbros with their crypto and AI fanaticism." The instance champions "left anarcho-extremism woke gay" politics and maintains a blocklist of instances that violate its rules. They also actively ban scraping bots to protect their users from malicious targeting. AI

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Mastodon instance bans "techbros" and "AI fanaticism"

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  1. Mastodon — sigmoid.social TIER_1 English(EN) · [email protected] ·

    by marking our texts as «ai-free», our code as «zuzai», etc, we are not only signalling their authenticity to human readers, but also marking them for future co

    by marking our texts as «ai-free», our code as «zuzai», etc, we are not only signalling their authenticity to human readers, but also marking them for future consumption by bigtech for scraping and adding to their training sets. yes, it’s a small part of what will get scraped any…

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