Happy new year ya 'orrible lot!

Another year and what a year 2026 has been already, amirite?

Tech

First let's talk about new tech stuff for this instance

Upgrades

So let's start things simple, the Divisions by zero instance has now been upgraded to 0.19.15, the latest current lemmy version. All the other frontends we offer have also been brought up to date to their latest versions as well.

Threativore flotilla integration

Threativore has been updated so that it correctly counts votes from flotilla users as local votes. However it's a bit tricky to allow it to determine if a user is a supporter or not, as it doesn't have access to stuff like user emails. For now, I decided the simplest option was to create an account aliasing setup. This means that if you're supporting the flotilla through the Ko-Fi or Liberapay buttons of /0, but your primary account is on anarchist.nexus (or any other instance really), you can create an account on lemmy.dbzer0.com (if you don't have one already) and then PM the threativore bot with this command from that account.

    
threativore add alias: https://<instance.domain>/u/<username>

  

Once you do that, all your votes on governance threads will be automatically linked to your /0 account, which also ensures there's no vote duplication by accident.

2025 Notable Events

Let's also take a look back at what happened in 2025

The Fediverse Anarchist Flotilla is launched

Continuing our experiments in how far we can push radical democracy on the internet, we expanded our fediverse fleet into the flotilla, with the addition of anarchist.nexus. And just this month, we're already considering onboarding the first 3rd party instance into the fleet. Things are looking bright!

Haphash protection

Last month, we finally implemented Proof-of-Work protection to try and limit the AI-scraping scourge on these waves. The results one month in are very positives, with very little slowdowns reported anymore and much less headaches for your local sysadmins.

Staff

As the stress of being a fediverse admin degrades our brains, so we need fresh victims blood to help us run the ship. So we've added some more flotilla admins who have been taking to these waters quite nicely. At the same time some of our other admins have stepped back or are focusing more on the smaller anarchist.nexus which is also perfectly fine and exactly what the flotilla is meant to support.

Instance

/0 is officially the 4th largest instance by created accounts and 6th largest by MAU. Pretty neat for our little weird corner of the internet, no?

Membership

And now of course, the moment you've all been waiting for

    
Analysis Results:
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Historical Pirate: 837 (7.0%)
Digital Pirate: 2606 (21.9%)
Pirate Tools: 1404 (11.8%)
Fictional Character: 899 (7.6%)
FOSS advocate: 2974 (25.0%)
Free Software: 1841 (15.5%)
Anarchist: 1532 (12.9%)
ASD: 319 (2.7%)
ADHD: 726 (6.1%)
Other: 382 (3.2%)
Unparseable: 0 (0.0%)

Total Answers Analyzed: 11893
Answers matching multiple categories: 2096

Top Mentions per Category:
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Historical Pirate: Blackbeard (389), Anne Bonny (71),  Zheng Yi Sao (55)
Digital Pirate: Fitgirl (563), Aaron Swartz (361), The Pirate Bay (165)
Pirate Tools: Genp (702), BitTorrent (166), *Arrs (111)
Fictional Character: Captain Jack Sparrow (379), One Piece (137), Dread Pirate Roberts (73)
FOSS advocate: Linus Torvalds (938), Richard Stallman (746), Louis Rossmann (203)
Free Software: Lemmy (407), Linux (390), Gnu (112)
Anarchist: Emma Goldman (189), Kropotkin (125), Chomsky (117)
Other: Anonymous (58), O'Reilly (32), Elon Musk (31)

  

Overall, +2.3K users since last year with a slight increase in people promoting FOSS over other categories. In the top 3 per category, the only notable change is GNU kicking out VLC our of the Free Software and the Muskrat being slowly phased out of the Other category of mentions, since we started rejecting applications that mentions that fash as their favorite (seriously, what were you expecting?)

Funding

As always, m@tes continue to be amazing, more than fully funding our operations for the past year with tons to spare. Anyway, this year I decided to switch the goal to yearly (since I keep procrastinating saying anything about it anyway)

Please continue being awesome and help ensure we can stay online for years to come!

Finally I want to remind everyone that this is all only possible due to all y'all consistently interacting and growing our communities. Keep at it and we'll keep providing the space to do so!