Yeah, I highly recommend starting your switch to another instance immediately. There is a discussion happening behind the scenes for a number of other major instances to defederate from lemmy.world if LW does indeed go through with the defederation from dbzer0 because, at that point, Kaplan will have proven a few things.

1. That Kaplan/LW admins value individual users like themselves over the entirety of an instances users

2. That Kaplan/LW admins are not willing to engage in the same type of reporting behavior that they ask others to do

3. That Kaplan/LW admins will be taking nuclear options in order to bully smaller instances into bowing to what they want you to do

4. That Kaplan/LW admins will be policing what you think as they have literally zero evidence that there is any support for Luminous' behavior and, in fact, has been pushback. It's so ridiculous that Jordan Lund said this in their moderator chat for Lemmy.world. A chat that I just sit in and quietly drink my tea watching them lie boldfaced.

The way federation is protected from this shit happening is by people spreading out. Don't join a popular instance. You can still interact with them without being a member of their instance. If one instance gets power, like Lemmy.world, you just end up in another situation like Reddit, where they can control the platform. You should definitely leave, if you aren't already planning to. Find a small instance that does what you want.

Tbh it is a quick a painless process to jump from .world to another instance. I only done this the other day from .world and boy howdy the amount of content that I can see. The fediverse feels new again.

The welcome mat is ready for you on DB0

I think all of LW's staff are in some way or they wouldn't be there.

And now they're banning people for just pointing out they're bullying others and other instances lol

Pretty sure they think they're building the next reddit and once they get rid of the unmentionables it'll finally take off

The scum in question Samskara@sh.itjust.works

You see, Zionist talking points of how Arabs are evil is fine, saying that's wrong is what gets you banned.

Like how countries are currently putting sanctions on Iran for defending itself from another illegal occupation/war.

Amazing how they keep bleeding mods because of their actions and then think anyone who disagrees with them is actually the real issue.

I'm sure in a few days MrKaplan will say you've been brainwashed by db0 or Tankies or whatever he needs to excuse his actions.

Yeah that was Serinus. The fact that comment has been left up and he hasn't been criticisized publicly for it is demonstration of how LW feels. Because its a small instance, it doesn't matter. LW is just bullying instances smaller than them to control the field. The majority of the admin team of LW needs to be completely replaced or defederation is the only acceptable option now. If they're going to threaten and bully, then everyone else needs to cut them off at the knees first to stop them from being able to do so.

"It's only 165 users"

And that's still 165 users that Lemmy.world was more than happy to defederate with to go after someone who isn't even an admin anymore. Not only that, but going after them for what Kaplan admitted was a lack of evidence. Just a feeling.

Enjoy dbzer0, the governance threads are quite unique, in a good way

Feel free to consider moving your instances off LW too to be able to keep moderating them

Ahoy, welcome to the flotilla!

Because they haven't. They're threatening to. I'd recommend clicking on that link to the announcement post and checking out the comments.

The tl;dr is that they had defederated from anarchist.nexus (the piefed version of dbzer0) and was threatening to defederate from dbzer0 despite never actually talking with anyone from either instance before beginning the defederation proceedings. After a day, Kaplan made the announcement post which has been getting overwhelmingly negative reactions to the decision on behalf of LW Admins. This led to Kaplan reversing the defederation for anarchist.nexus but, as the announcement post states, is still considering defederating from dbzer0 and if they do so will also defederate from anarchist.nexus again. They have literally no reason for this defederation at this stage.

Also, just FYI, defederation has some unintuitive behavior. IIRC, you will not receive content from the defederated instance but if your instance-mates post there, you will see that content, since it's actually from your own instance. Something like that, anyway.

The aforementioned defederation decision is still pending.