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. Iā€™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?

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    What I said initially: ā€œPerhaps they are thinking of the ā€œanarchistsā€ that just watch YouTube videos to get angry at ā€œthe tankiesā€ based on a misunderstanding of history in the 1920sā€

    And I said thereā€™s plenty of other decades with ā€œmisunderstandingsā€?

    And of fucking course the 20s and 30s are the primary focus because thatā€™s the period with the last revolutionary potential which MLs squandered to build Capitalism again.

    Or is that meant to be euphemistic cover for ā€œa couple adminsā€?

    No, an affinity group is an affinity group a bunch of admins is something else, but can also be valid.

    Personally, I donā€™t think ā€œtwo people make the important decisionsā€ is complaining about imperfection when it comes to an anarchist instance. Itā€™s really just unexamined centralization that is otherwise an implicit part of the process of hosting software. And itā€™s very funny.

    Thereā€™s plenty of scenarios where anarchists take decisions without voting. Again, you donā€™t get to declare by fiat what is a ā€œmajor decisionā€. But Iā€™m glad youā€™re self-amused at least.

    The ā€œpurityā€ is ā€œbasic correspondence to the core principals of what you claim to beā€.

    Nonense.

    But please do tell me about the regimes I support and how I am inconsistent on this. I expect you to be able to explain this without my input, as you are so certain, right?

    Iā€™m pretty certain youā€™re a Marxist-Leninist, so you (critically?) support the usual suspects of USSR and PRC. Probably also Cuba and if youā€™re extreme enough North Korea. Am I wrong?

    A short version of the naturalistic fallacy is, ā€œwhat is, is what should beā€. That you justify what should be simply because it is how things are done. That is the logic you presented! ā€œYou donā€™t vote on each ban your> admins and mods take either.ā€

    Thatā€™s not a naturalistic fallacy. Thatā€™s me pointing out that this way of acting is obvious when you donā€™t decide by fiat why something is ā€œmajor decisionā€ for others. Iā€™m also pointing out potential hypocrisy.

    You did not say the latter, actually. But you did say that you donā€™t vote on each ban, as if this justifies the practice. It sounds kind of like these instances should!

    No, I didnā€™t say that doing this justifies it. Thatā€™s bad uncharitable reading on your part to claim a fallacy. Iā€™ve actually done ā€œvoting on every banā€ so Iā€™m familiar with how well it works. Have you?

    Just for the record, do tell, what experience do you have running an instance or a comm?

    No I donā€™t and I already responded to that. This situation is not one of what people joined, it was a censorship decision, it required a change. Gotta flip that ā€˜blockā€™ button and all that.

    Do you know that for sure? Did you check when slrpnk defederated hexbear?

    Yes of course it is, at least if you want to say you are anarchist. Thatā€™s a major decision and it is something that even ā€œauthoritarianā€ instances can accomplish. I know that anarchists could do it even better!

    Again, why do you think you can declare by fiat what is a major decision?

    No, it is not what we are talking about.

    It certainly is. Again, do you know when such instances were blocked comparative to the life of the acting instance?

    Itā€™s funny because while I didnā€™t ignore that, because Iā€™ve already directly said in no uncertain terms that I disagree 3-4 times, you ignored my response to what you said: itā€™s a silly straw man.

    Just because you disagree what is a ā€œmajor decisionā€ for other groups of people you donā€™t belong to, doesnā€™t mean you are right. The impact of the decision and who gets to vote on it is determined by the people most affected by it. Thatā€™s the core anarchist principle you donā€™t seem to understand.

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      And I said thereā€™s plenty of other decades with ā€œmisunderstandingsā€?

      And of fucking course the 20s and 30s are the primary focus because thatā€™s the period with the last revolutionary potential which MLs squandered to build Capitalism again.

      If you skip over what I say, you will end up making us go in circles. The next thing I wrote: ā€œI am of course not saying ā€œthe only things are from the 1920sā€, but that this is a primary focus. And when asked about the time periods you think of as primary, they popped up. Full circle, lol.ā€

      No, an affinity group is an affinity group a bunch of admins is something else, but can also be valid.

      Then acknowledge what I said before this and that you skipped over: ā€œRight so they are anarchist instances. And they make important decisions about federation by fiat of a couple admins. And that is very funny for anarchists to do. Inventing scenarios that didnā€™t happen to say how they are reasonable isā€¦ not relevant. In many ways you implicitly acknowledge how silly it is, because none of your examples are, ā€œa couple admins just decide itā€, instead you talk about affinity group subsets.ā€

      Thereā€™s plenty of scenarios where anarchists take decisions without voting.

      Yes of course there are. This is not a real response to anything I have said. We have already long established that this is about making site-wide censorship decisions re: federation, not literally everything. That is just another implicit straw man.

      I think, of course, that is it obvious that a site-wide censorship decision is an important one that it is very funny for an anarchist instance to decide via a couple admins.

      Again, you donā€™t get to declare by fiat what is a ā€œmajor decisionā€. But Iā€™m glad youā€™re self-amused at least.

      I do get to say, by fiat, what I think is a major decision. And I think itā€™s actually pretty obviously a major decision, which is why despite being 3-4 comments deep we still have to talk about things like ā€œThereā€™s plenty of scenarios where anarchists take decisions without votingā€.

      Nonense

      Yesnsense.

      Iā€™m pretty certain youā€™re a Marxist-Leninist, so you (critically?) support the usual suspects of USSR and PRC. Probably also Cuba and if youā€™re extreme enough North Korea. Am I wrong?

      ā€œI expect you to be able to explain this without my input, as you are so certain, right?ā€

      Thatā€™s not a naturalistic fallacy. Thatā€™s me pointing out that this way of acting is obvious when you donā€™t decide by fiat why something is ā€œmajor decisionā€ for others.

      I do get to decide my opinions by ā€œfiatā€, lol. Got the thought police in here. Why are you copying my terminology to use it inappropriately for other situations?

      But okay, I will accept that what you meant was that it was obvious. I will simply disagree (for the 5th time), because I think it is obvious that site-wide censorship is obviously a significant decision.

      No, I didnā€™t say that doing this justifies it. Thatā€™s bad uncharitable reading on your part to claim a fallacy. Iā€™ve actually done ā€œvoting on every banā€ so Iā€™m familiar with how well it works. Have you?

      My point, which I will say was not obvious, when it comes to voting on every ban, was that it would be better to overcorrect in the opposite decision.

      Just for the record, do tell, what experience do you have running an instance or a comm?

      I have experience with both. Itā€™s thankless, isnā€™t it?

      Do you know that for sure? Did you check when slrpnk defederated hexbear?

      slrpnk did not defederate from hexbear. It blocked hexbear without announcement, by fiat of its main admin. It confirmed this blocking/ā€œdefedereationā€ in August last year. This was not something discussed nor presented, lol. Itā€™s just one admin doing what they would like.

      Again, why do you think you can declare by fiat what is a major decision?

      lmao there it is again.

      A censorship decision is of course major, it is about who your instanceā€™s users can interact with via your website. If your federated social media website is anything at all, it is about users and how they interact, what they post, etc.

      And again, non-anarchist instances have done this. Itā€™s very very very funny that anarchists ones donā€™t.

      It certainly is.

      It is painfully obviously not. An admin quietly implementing a decision to block after the instance existed and then letting people know this is how it was last year is not in any way an anarchist collective where everyoneā€™s just agreeing to those pre-existing bylaws by joining. It is just a website with an admin making the decision on their own.

      Again, do you know when such instances were blocked comparative to the life of the acting instance?

      Uh yeah?

      Just because you disagree what is a ā€œmajor decisionā€ for other groups of people you donā€™t belong to, doesnā€™t mean you are right.

      I think this straw manning thing might be a habit.

      The impact of the decision and who gets to vote on it is determined by the people most affected by it.

      Of course that is literally not the case here, is it? Or did slrpnk vote to block/defederate?

      Thatā€™s the core anarchist principle you donā€™t seem to understand.

      The core anarchist principle that nobody gets to judge who is anarchist unless they are a member of that particular anarchist group? I would love to see that core principle justified. Please show me your sources!