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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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Actually, this is it working as intended.
my problem isn't really about the topic at hand, it's moreso that the community has so many controversies constantly that nobody will really ever want to join. The user base will slowly dwindle away
Possibly. But such conflict is inherent to people, especially ones with a strong enough motivation to choose an alternative to mainstream social media. It's kind of baked in.
I don't really think so. Lemmy.world is one of the biggest instances that has a good chunk of the total user base. If their mods have gone to shit and are trying to defederate from another big chunk of the community it's not a good thing. Instances should never have been allowed to get this big or have this much influence in the first place. They only got this big because a lot of other instances closed shop. I was on fmhy, then antemeridian, and then lemm.ee. They weren't even particularly small instances but all are gone now.
This is quickly becoming a shit show. It was already a struggle compared to Reddit and it's only getting worse, more niche, and more radicalized.
If an instance gets too big and starts acting shitty, people can choose to stay on different instances and interact with the big shitty one as much or as little as they want. With reddit it's stay or go, the end. .world is big, but it's not the be-all end-all of the fediverse you're making it out to be.