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!
I don't quite see a point in this endeavor. Does the "Fediverse Anarchist Flotilla" as they call them, expect to be defederated by lemmy world? Are they trying to get defederated? The linked/crossposted post feels more like an overreaction and panicking to me.
As for the accusations of lemmy world admins supporting genocide, I don't quite see that. While I agree that an admin should not act entirely on their own and just defederate an instance without talking about it with other admins, a person who calls themselves "kill all [x]" does sound dangerous. Wishing murder to anyone is not quite conforming to lemmy world rules ... or most social standards.
It seems to me that this pact might just be a childish ploy to try and destroy the lemmy world instance. They just get a bunch of instances to join, then provoke a conflict with lemmy world, everyone defederates and lemmy world most likely will be fine while everyone else in the pact will isolate themselves further.
But maybe I simply don't know enough of the history of lemmy world mod actions. I do trust this instance and the decisions of the pawb social admin team. And I do not condone what Israel is doing in the middle east and I do think db0 is an important instance but I'd still be careful with unnecessary pacts. Someone wants to instill fear here, don't let that influence you.
Yes. The administrator who defederated the instance originally is currently pushing for both AN and db0 to be defederated from Lemmy.world, despite the fact that the AN user in question who had the inappropriate name has been removed from their admin position, citing "an odd feeling".
This endeavor is advocating for pawb.social to pledge to defederate from lemmy.world if lemmy.world chooses to defederate AN and DB0 over this issue.
Hmmm, instances could also simply defederate in solidarity if lemmy world decides to defederate AN and db0 over this. There is no use pressuring lemmy world into a decision with a pledge if the admins are bad, they will just do more bad things another time. It would make more sense to me to wait and have a discussion about defederating lemmy world if this issue does escalate.