Hello everyfur <3!
For those of you unaware, Lemmy.World has a significant problem with a pro-Zionist, pro-Israel admin team. As one of the largest instances, they have a lot of weight to throw around, and they are acting extremely unprofessionally and counter to the ideals of the Fediverse by defederating with AN/db0 - which are broadly very well behaved and active instances.
More details are available in the OP. You can check this summary by Stamets, or sort the comments by Top, and check the top comments for the receipts of this recent issue.
As a pretty active, long standing member of this instance, I am calling for and advocating for Pawb.Social to join this action in standing against power-hungry instance admins acting according to their personal whims and vendettas, by agreeing to join in by pledging to defederate with Lemmy.world if the admin team refuses to back down from this behavior.
I would like to suggest that this is put to some kind of vote/referendum of Pawb users to decide how to approach this issue.
Thank you for reading! :3
Original post follows, cross-posted from: https://lemmy.dbzer0.com/post/67858553
🏴☠️ 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!
This is an outcome I've pondered on. Say a split happens, and the large number of lemmy.world users remain there. That community would still be large enough such that it could hypothetically be treated as a separate sector of lemmy, completely cut off from the other communities, but large enough to keep its own.
Only some instances will be able to bridge the gap of this, and tap into both pools (lemmy.world & everyone else) by playing the neutral game. Eventually, things will happen that can push those shared instances further to one side, eventually hostility from the opposition and support of the nearer side brings them together. And yet, the problem remains unsolved, the split still festers. Who knows though, maybe lemmy.world is entirely supplemented by new communities in this new space that's formed, and leads to the bulk beating the powerful.
Dipping into political theory: In some ways, it almost seems to mirror a power struggle, I view it similar to the population vs powerful. Lemmy's decentralization makes for a somewhat 'anarchist' technology, and this hypothetical seems to allure me, as it seems representative of real struggles a possible anarchist society could/would face when a group grows to be 'too powerful'. The internet is not a mirror of real-world society, but I feel the comparison is hard to deny.
Edit that's halfway relevant: Could someone point me to some guidelines, or policies, etc. about creating a community on this instance? I've had two on the mind that I dearly miss from Reddit, and consequentially haven't felt I can share content that'd pertain to them.
Lemmy is already pretty split. The "Tankie Triad" (Lemmygrad, Hexbear and to a lesser extent .ml) are mostly isolated from the more "center" instances.
That is interestin', it is. In retrospective, it makes a lotta sense that these groups would form and spat at one another. I had a massive cloud in the head about why X community seems to dislike Y instance, and yet Z community talks ill of X and Y, and it's just a whole mess. I hadn't considered that to be because of a split like this, as of yet.
There's not really any - you can just create whatever you want, and make the rules whatever you like. As long as the community follows the code of conduct it'll probably be fine!