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Note: Judging by the comments, a lot of people are obviously not reading the post and are instead assuming we are calling for defederation of lemmy.world. That is not the case, and in fact the opposite is true. LW already temporarily defederated anarchist.nexus once, and the evidence suggests Mr Kaplan is now pushing for full defederation of all the FAF instances. We are trying to build a coalition of instances that will agree to defederate from lemmy.world IF Kaplan goes ahead with the defederation. Apologies if you weren't aware of the context.
🏴☠️ Hoist the Black Flag: Pledge to Boycott Lemmy World!
... if Lemmy World dares to defederate from any ship in the Fediverse Anarchist Flotilla - https://lemmy.dbzer0.com/, https://anarchist.nexus/, and https://quokk.au/.
Mateys, we can’t let a mega‑instance captain bully the rest of the fleet just because their ship’s bigger. If Lemmy World tries to throw the FAF overboard, we’re calling for a show of solidarity: a fediverse blockade of Lemmy World in response, until the landlubbers see reason (i.e., there is an acceptable change in their leadership and/or this policy).
This is about mutual aid, not mutiny - standing together so no single admin gets to rule the seas unchallenged. A united armada of smaller instances can absolutely blunt Lemmy World’s outsized influence (and, let’s be honest, their ego).
☠️ A word to the captains: before hoisting colours or locking in a course, we ask ye to let your crew have their say. Run a poll, open the deck for discussion, and listen to the voices aboard your vessel. These seas belong to all of us, and decisions that shape our fediverse should be made together, not from the captain’s quarters alone.
If other captains be keen to chart this course with us, drop anchor and make the pledge public in the comments. The more hands on deck, the harder it is to sink any one of us. Let us know if you are holding a vote!
dbzer0 and AN members can vote on this pledge in !div0_governance@lemmy.dbzer0.com, and quokk.au will be holding their own vote.
🏴☠️ Solidarity forever, and fair winds to the Flotilla!
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Fuck it I'll have to be the one. This is absolute stupidity. Cowering from conversation, backing ourself into an echo chamber. Why would a floatilla of pirates flee unless they were all cowards. These are centrists making us bow and look life pitiful nothing. If you have nothing to say to refute them, then you never had a word to say. You have just been regurgitatating nothingness. If you believe your convictions are true, then refute them or block them. This post is pure cowardace and shows we are the weakest I have ever thought we were. If dbzer0 isn't going to stand and speak their mind, the flotilla should die. Fuck your cowardess.
The fediverse is built on voluntary connections between communities. This post is literally a post to discuss and debate the issue. There is no active proposal or vote to defederate from lemmy.world, unless they defederate from one of the mutual anarchist instances first. It's basically saying "if you do this, it will be bad, so don't do it". I.e., using solidarity between communities to force the issue one way or another. In what way is that cowering or "trending towards fascism"? Defederation is built into the fediverse, and it is not like it is being used willy nilly here to silence people. At least not by any of the instances signed on to this flotilla. This is a response to that actually, more than anything.
What the fuck are you on about? What do you think this is about?
It sounds very much like you are on a trend to a fascist regime blocking out all thought of anyone who disagrees with you. If that's not what it is you should figure out how to explain how you aren't. Right now you sound like a tyrant trying to destroy all of federated Lemmy/PieFed. I've stood by dbzer0 from jump, prove me right please, I don't want to find out this is the villain ark. If there are several bad mods in .world, we debate and discuss and make them understand. We don't cower
Explain how you come to this conclusion. What part of this post is "blocking out all thought"?
How do you figure we are going to do that?
How is this "cowering"?
You have it 180 degrees backwards. You're heading into the wind.
It seems you missed the entire post:
IF lemmy.world defederates dbzer0 (or the other FAF members), we are asking that other instances defederate LW in protest until LW changes their policy or leadership. We also ask that instance admins talk to their userbase about it as well.
We have already tried that. Also our userbase is interested in staying federated with LW which is why we are federated in the first place.
Not this dumb argument again. You think opposing a genocidal ideology is a matter of opinion?