I know these federated communities exist as well as raddle, but it still seems like most people will stay on toxic and corporate-run platforms like reddit or Twitter. I’m far from perfect myself and I still use reddit sometimes, especially for more niche communities, but when it comes to ideologically strong communities like the anarchist ones, it just feels wrong that the majority still hang out on reddit. Or you know, moving to something like Bsky when Twitter became too toxic but which is still run by a large, for-profit corporation (if they moved in the first place). What are your thoughts? Is there any justification for this?

  • db0@lemmy.dbzer0.comM
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    2 months ago

    So the whole last 100 years? Or are there certain decades?

    The whole but of course a ton of hard lessons learned in the 20s and 30s

    Voting on site-wide decisions does not require modeling an affinity group, it is not unique to an affinity group. Anarchists create collectives with participatory decision making of many kinds. What they rarely do is have a couple people make the major decisions on everyone’s behalf without others having a say.

    Surprising concept I know but did it ever occur to you that slkpnk and dbzer0 is not just for anarchists? Maybe mull on that concept and what it means for instance-wide voting.

    there’s plenty of decisions that don’t need voting, even between anarchists. You don’t vote on each ban your> admins and mods take either. This is all just hypocritical gotchas again

    • TheOubliette@lemmy.ml
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      2 months ago

      The whole but of course a ton of hard lessons learned in the 20s and 30s

      So the period I initially noted.

      Surprising concept I know but did it ever occur to you that slkpnk and dbzer0 is not just for anarchists?

      Describing those instances as anarchist was your doing from two of your comments ago: “Hexbear can indeed be very offputting to anarchists, especially those who learned from history that “left unity” isn’t. It’s why slrpnk.net has outright blocked hexbear and they also managed to alienate all the admins of dbzer0. Likewise they get very little respect from anarchists in places like kolektiva.social.”

      Now you’re just being inconsistent.

      there’s plenty of decisions that don’t need voting, even between anarchists. You don’t vote on each ban your> admins and mods take either. This is all just hypocritical gotchas again

      You probably should, given the above examples. Naturalistic fallacies don’t justify top-down fiats on major decisions.

      • db0@lemmy.dbzer0.comM
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        2 months ago

        So the period I initially noted.

        Did you miss me saying “the whole” just before that?

        Now you’re just being inconsistent.

        OMG you are really deliberately obtuse. There’s anarchists on these instances but it’s not just anarchists. Cheezus crust!

        You probably should, given the above examples. Naturalistic fallacies don’t justify top-down fiats on major decisions.

        Sorry I’m too dumb, can please explain where I did a naturalistic fallacy?

        Anyway, it’s not a major decision to define what kind of instance one federates on init. I did as well when I defed lemmygrad and exploding heads. If done on start, people know what they’re joining. Again, a vote is not needed on everything and not everything is a “major decision” just because you claim it is.