Join the Pledge to boycott lemmy.world!

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!

5 Comments

Sanctus@anarchist.nexus · 6 pts · 139d

Hoist the colors high

djsoren19@lemmy.blahaj.zone · 4 pts · 139d

way ahead of you, I blocked that shitty instance like a year ago, but it'd be great if more people were willing to fully defederate.

nixus@anarchist.nexus · 4 pts · 138d

I don't really use this account anymore because of .world. It's the nazi-bar problem, but with genocidists instead. If Nexus defederates, I'd start using this account again, because I like PieFed better (sorry lemmy devs!)

But as long as any instances federates with .world, I'm out.

lovingisliving@anarchist.nexus · 3 pts · 138d

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itrealgood@mander.xyz · 2 pts · 139d (1 reply)

nocturne@slrpnk.net · 6 pts · 139d

Stamets sums it up here: https://slrpnk.net/comment/22002804

activistPnk@slrpnk.net · 2 pts · 137d

I seem to just be getting bits of this story without the full context. And that’s fine, I don’t really want a long read.

But I will say that I have been boycotting LW since day 1. Not because of a specific bad actor, but simply because it’s the most antithetical instance to fedi principles:

centralised because it has grown to a disproportionate extreme. I already minimise participation on any node that has more than 2 standard deviations above the average user count.
centralised on Cloudflare. It’s a shitty boot licker of an exclusive tech giant gate keeper. It’s an oppressive walled-garden.

There is no need to do any digging on conduct beyond that. LW is on par with Facebook as far as I’m concerned simply for those 2 reasons.

lyrial@anarchist.nexus · 2 pts · 137d