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!
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.:-(