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!

governance type: sense check

  • Unruffled [they/them]@lemmy.dbzer0.comOPEnglish
    3·
    9 days ago

    Yes, I know that. It’s true we can’t force anyone to federate with us. But it just seems like a bad idea for any instance to ignore the preferences of their own users, and especially so when it’s the largest Lemmy instance. It’s this top-down management style and total lack of accountability for the top admins (reminiscent of Reddit’s corporate management style) that we are trying to highlight here as something that needs addressing for the overall good of the fediverse.

    Fact is, the vast majority of fediverse users support our stance against Zionism, (including Lemmy Worlders afaik) and think it’s unfair for our instances to be threatened with defederation over it. If LW decides to double down and defederates the FAF, it’ll fracture the fediverse, and many of their left-leaning users who care about fighting Zionism will leave. Where will that leave Lemmy World? On a speedrun to becoming a nazi bar, that’s where.

    Personally, I’d prefer it if they didn’t take that path, and that is why I am choosing to do what I can to get them to change course, before it is too late.

    • Corgana
      21·
      8 days ago

      But defederation is not something that be “threatened” because it’s not an attack, it’s a boundary. We don’t have the right to control other people. If someone asks us to treat them a specific way and we choose not to, they have the right to walk away and without fear of harassment, just as we do.

      • Unruffled [they/them]@lemmy.dbzer0.comOPEnglish
        2·
        8 days ago

        If someone asks us to treat them a specific way and we choose not to, they have the right to walk away […]

        It’s not Kaplan’s personal instance though is it? If Kaplan chooses to they “walk away”, it’s affecting thousands of active users on both of our instances, and fracturing the fediverse, with zero input from users.

        […] and without fear of harassment, just as we do.

        My big problem is the lack of due process and lack of accountability at LW. The admin team routinely treats their own user base with contempt, which is typical of their chauvinistic attitude towards other instances as well.

        And making valid criticisms of Kaplan’s actions isn’t in any way “harassment”. What the LW team are in fact fearful of, it seems to me, is any scrutiny and criticism of their moderation actions and biases, which are in many cases (and especially wrt zionism) seemingly in direct opposition to what their own user base actually wants.

        • Corgana
          12·
          8 days ago

          But it’s not ours. We can request someone else do something for us, but if they don’t want to, and we continue making demands of someone else, then they have the right to stop interacting with us. That’s not an attack and it doesn’t cause injury.