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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
I understand blocking authoritarian bootlicking instances like Hexbear and LemmyGrad—hell, that’s half the reason why I switched to Lemmy World after Lemm.ee died—but why block the good guys?
I’m all for this; LW needs to be taught a lesson. Needless to say I’m switching to dbzer0 ASAP.
Lemmy World and Lemm.ee are both boot licking instances centralised on the exclusive network of Cloudflare, which violates the most basic principles of the fedi’s purpose. LW is also centralised by size alone, so it’s the most notorious adversary among us in an otherwise decentralised free world.
Being somewhere new here, I read the wiki trying to understand why you dislike Cloudflare. Is it because they are “free speech absolutists” and only stop servicing far right websites ones people die from their rhetoric?
Not at all. But along those lines, it needs to be said that when someone reported child porn to Cloudflare, Cloudflare demanded the identity of the person blowing the whistle. Then Cloudflare took no action other than to furnish the identity of the whistle blower to the CP host admin, who then published the identity so that their users would retaliate against the whistle blower. Then when Matthew Prince was questioned about this, he said the whistle blower should have used a fake name. This basically confirms that Cloudflare cannot be trusted with anything that calls for privacy – when at the same time they have a MitM view of over ⅓ of the worlds web traffic as they hold the SSL keys.
But to answer your question, I suggest:
I don’t think any instance should block any instance. Individual users are free to block users and spaces they don’t like, such as hexbear if you don’t like hearing different opinions, but again it’s stupid and childish for a server admin to defederate for any reason other than actual abuse.
I agree with this main post though, about dealing with .world