cross-posted from: https://lemmy.dbzer0.com/post/67858553
Join the Pledge to boycott lemmy.world!
🏴☠️ 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!
The downstream effect of this will be people leaving the Threadiverse, going to Meta, X/Bluesky, and Reddit.
The downstream effect of the previous b-b-but BoTh SiDeS sAmE campaign (this one not exclusively on the Fediverse nor, presumably, even aimed at us so much as having spilled over from elsewhere) was the election of Donald J Trump, in large part since Kamala Harris was deemed not a strong enough supporter of Palestine or workers rights or fiscal conservativism or whatever other points they thought would (and somehow DID!!!) stick.
But sure, let's pull this trigger once more.
Either lack of evidence has somehow now become evidence of lack... or else there are biased "agendas" at play. Of course, the people complaining are a very small minority of all of us here across the Threadiverse, but remember that for conservativism (even the kind that calls itself "leftist"), fear is the point. By making all this noise, it silences the non-extremists in the middle who just want to browse some memes and have a pleasant conversation from time to time without being called a Zionist and having literal death threats levied collectively at us all, for failure to... what, not grab a gun and walk over to Palestine and fight on their behalf? Incels gonna incel.
Ironically, I used to think of /0 as a serious instance, not very much at all like HB. But first the shift towards uncritical acceptance of tankies and now this debacle has convinced me that it is heading towards becoming a second one at full speed ahead.
Which worries me because even after the upcoming defed, as you say regardless of who pulls what trigger, the people with the highest amount of drive to spread their agenda still further are the most likely to jump onto a normal instance and push for it to convert as well, just as happened here with /0. .
To anyone else that might happen to read this: stay curious! Stay skeptical! A "summary" offered from a biased source, which leaves out the most crucial details, and all the more so if it is written by an LLM, is not worthy of your uncritical acceptance! Do not believe me, or Admiral Patrick, or anything other than your very own eyes!! People sometimes tell untrue statements on the internet!
what's a serious instance?
I did too, which is kind of why I'm so emotionally invested in this (as far as I can care about this kind of drama, anyway). I also used to think db0 (the person/user) was alright but recent events have shattered that illusion.
The more I think about it, the more I realize that it wasn't that db0 (and /0 the instance) let me down so much as I'm now questioning my own judgement for thinking they were ever okay in the first place.
Regardless, that stings.
Fwiw, I do think that things changed. It would be easy to simply say that Power Corrupts, which is obviously true (and in this case the Flotilla offers increased weight for someone to leverage in order to achieve their aims).
But I think it is more than that. I read into those messages we talked about from 10+ months ago a level of fear of rising levels of fascism across the globe. So the most charitable explanation thus being that there is safety in numbers? Even though my admittedly extremely brief read of their charter seems to preclude member instances from being able to defederate who they want (for any reason?) - i.e. an authoritarian structure?
That instance does not realize that it will be - in fact seemingly has already been - eaten alive, by the most extremists, and is now being slowly digested. It is speed-running tankism, skipping past the "freedom" part to the part where people are now free to do as THEY say?
I find the height of irony that in the call for additional admins, they have this language:
Which sounds precisely like what they are now accusing MrKaplan of having done? No vote, just act, then roll back the decision of defederation when the circumstances changed (i.e. when Luminous stepped down as admin of AN). But... that was THEN, and for THEM, whereas this is NOW, and for someone ELSE. A different rule for thee (now) than for me (then)... aka do as I say (now), not as I do (then).
Fear makes people do odd things.:-(