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 [email protected], and quokk.au will be holding their own vote.

🏴‍☠️ Solidarity forever, and fair winds to the Flotilla!

governance type: sense check

  • CannonFodder
    6·
    3 months ago

    After the more recent (last year or so) ramp up of Israeli violence and after plenty of discourse here on Lemmy and other places, I see what Israel is doing now as genocide. Immediately after the Oct attacks, I saw it as a overzealous response that didn’t take civilian safety anywhere nearly seriously enough. War is war and it sucks and should be avoided. After those Oct attacks, I felt Isreal was pulled into that war and did have to defend itself. But later on Isreal kept going even as the threat seems relatively neutralized. They buddied up with the U.S. under trump and got support to continue to commit atrocities with no goal other than revenge and the killing of Palestinians. And now they are attacking Lebanon in the same way. Maybe I was too slow to see when they crossed the line, but there’s so much misinformation and evil on all sides it can be difficult. But the point here is that if I’d just been banned from discussion because I figured Isreal shouldn’t have to put up with terrorists killing civilians at a music festival, it might have taken me a lot longer to gain a broader perspective of what’s going on now. Banning people is stupid just because they disagree. Disagreement and the discussion over it is in fact really the main point of lemmy, I would think.