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

  • Aspis@lemy.lol
    932·
    1 month ago

    Lemy.lol has a new administration team. We stand with Dbzer0 against Lemmy.world’s flagrant abuses of power. Their admins have forgotten the purpose of defederation. To see it used as a cudgell against a single user they feel distasteful, not to mention not having any evidence to back up their claims, is a gross offense to the Fediverse as a whole.

      • cm0002@lemy.lol
        211·
        1 month ago

        Lol, I haven’t posted to a LW comm in a LONG time, even my .ml crossposting campaign I’ve been able to avoid posting to LW comms and find an alt to both LW and .ml

        • Stamets@lemmy.dbzer0.comEnglish
          21·
          1 month ago

          Yeah if I remember correctly it was around about the same time when I left Lemmy.world over the Jordan Lund situation and seeing glacial movement from admins over abuse of power reports. Funny. It’s important you do things without them being reported on for Lemmy.world but you have to report shit for months to get an admin to even consider looking at stepping in.

          • cm0002@lemy.lol
            151·
            1 month ago

            Yea, the whole we’re gonna dump and wash our hands of our admin responsibilities off to our mod team to handle was just unacceptable and unprofessional.

            And now this new shit show just solidifies it

          • cm0002@lemy.lol
            4·
            1 month ago

            Ive seriously thought about it, but LW looks far too busy for me to handle at its current activity level. At least in the current non-automated ways I do .ml

    • rivvvver@lemmy.dbzer0.comEnglish
      24·
      1 month ago

      To see it used as a cudgell against a single user they feel distasteful, not to mention not having any evidence to back up their claims, is a gross offense to the Fediverse as a whole.

      first time?

      • Eugene V. Debs' Ghost@lemmy.dbzer0.comEnglish
        5·
        1 month ago
        • Bad faith user who is the main member of the instance and spun up accounts to harass users that we voted on collectively
        • an admin removed a comment advocating for genocide, so the admin of the biggest instance defederated without asking or notice, and only walked back after hundreds of users called them out

        Yep, exactly the same.