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November 2026 Update Announcement Casual (anarchist.nexus)
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October 2026 Update

Welcome to this month's Anarchist.Nexus update! As always, if you have anything to add, please do so in the comments.

Editor (@qull7513)'s Note

The following was composed by @y0kai@anarchist.nexus . I promise I'm not cracking up and writing in the third person. As @y0kai@anarchist.nexus mentions below, I was a little too busy this week to write our update. I will open up to you what is going on, as it actually has some bearing on my portion of the update. Here in Appalachia our little group of Friends, Comrades, and Allies have run into a breakdown in communication surrounding one of our Neighbor's actions, and how we respond to this not through the structures of white supremacy and punitive criminal justice that pervades the United States ever since the house of burgesses was established in 1612 to extract as much capitalist value from the land of Turtle Island as possible. Additionally I have been working on setting up a warm clothes distro to help our local unhoused neighbors survive the winter, as well as restore some of their stolen and destroyed property from the police.

@y0kai@anarchist.nexus also had something to attend to (making sure loved ones know they're loved), so he passed this back to me. I'm doing something very rude right now by further editorializing that which I felt I didn't have time to do to say that I always enjoy speaking with @y0kai@anarchist.nexus , and I think he's a delight. I also take seriously that he writes about me like I'm really cool and try to live up to being as cool as he seems to think I am. I've also been learning from a Potawatomi elder how to better celebrate eachother in these spaces, so I am in this moment trying to treat him how she treats me. Additionally, this week, I have given special public appreciation to @tenchiken@anarchist.nexus and Mia on Matrix that deserves to be preserved here where information is more visible long term. None of what makes the threadiverse so enjoyable for me would be possible without them, and I am truly grateful to refer to them as "Friend" and hope to someday break bread with them and call them "friend."

Hi everyone, like last month, Quill is pretty heavily involved in his local community’s struggles and has asked me to write the update.

AN has updated to Pylova v0.5.0 v0.5.1

Kudos to the lovely Mia

As I was writing this update, we moved from Pylova v0.5.0 to v0.5.1. You may notice the header on our site still says Pylova v0.3. This is evidence of just how much hard work Mia (@quokka@quokk.au) has been putting into this platform every day. She pushes useful new updates to the platform faster than the admins can keep up with updating our own headings. For this, we feel recognition and a thank you is necessary *at the very least. *I have reached out to her to see if she has a donation link she would like to share, but at the time of posting, she had not yet replied. I will update this section in the future with any links she provides.

New features in v0.5.0

New & Improved

  • Shareable Blocklists: Users can create, maintain, and share block lists of users, communities, instances, or domains. Users can be hidden completely or muffled.
  • Roles: Permissions have been changed into ‘Roles’, these offer expanded functionality. Admins can create multiple roles choosing what permissions they can be given, if any. As well as setting upload and storage limits, ability to post video, etc. Posts can be restricted to certain roles for matters of voting and commenting.
  • Temporary Bans: Now users can be banned from an instance for a limited range of time. This also fixes the nasty bug that leads to temp bans from Lemmy never expiring on PieFed instances.
  • Instance Chooser: Discovers new instances from Fediseer, as well as polling other instances. This removes any singular point of authority in seeding new instances and helps disperse discovery. Instances in the chooser also show Fediseer endorsements, and Fediseer tags can be searched for to help find instances based on content.
  • New User Experience: New users are better presented topics when joining to help discover content, and a user with no subscriptions is shown a list of popular communities and feeds they may want to join.

Bug-Fixes & Misc

  • Inline Comment Editing: Edit your comments without leaving your position on the conversation.
  • Visual Changes: Small changes to create a more unified modern look.
  • Bento Tiles: Masonry Tiles are revamped into Bento boxes, masonry-wide has been removed. Removed security issue in tiles.
  • Instance Vote Settings: Admins can select if up/downvotes are accepted from an instance.
  • Instance Overview: When browsing instances additional information about them is displayed.
  • New Fonts: Ubuntu and Open Dyslexic have been added. Ubuntu is now the default font for new instances.
  • New Post: Starting a new post no longer changes targetted community when switching post type, non-allowed post types are hidden if that community does not accept them.
  • Themes: PhpBB and Trans theme are currently removed awaiting some much needed fixing, they will return in the future.

New features in v0.5.1

Aside from minor tweaks and fixes, you’ll now find a new Transparency page, as well as a new admin setup wizard.

Kudos to the venerable Tenchiken (@tenchiken@lemmy.dbzer0.com)

In addition to Mia’s python sorcery, Tenchi has been on top of things all month. On top of keeping up with the Pylova rollouts, he has been tirelessly fighting bots, AI scrapers, issues with the database and federation just to keep the site running. It’s been a busy month for us all, and none of it would be possible without our Ten-chickens in a trenchcoat. So, if you see him around make sure you tell him thank you or send him a picture of a chinchilla doing some thing cute, or a few dollars, he’d probably like that too.

Time for a new Logo

With all this talk of Pylova, which is a Phythonic play on the word Pavlova, a delicious merengue dessert, one begins to wonder why we still have a pie in our logo. The answer to that, for anyone who has been around for more than a few weeks, should be obvious. Pylova is a piefed fork and AN used to run on piefed.

The time has come though, for a new design. Piefed’s time has come and gone for us and we’d like to have something that fits us bit better.

A call to action for artists

While we may not use anything that comes in, we are asking anyone who would like to submit a proposal for the new logo design. I won't offer guidance on what this should new logo should look like, other than that it should be recognizable as an icon when sized the same as the current pie logo. Obviously we'd want it to be memorable pretty, and related to the site and its mission.

If possible (contingent on submissions and a bit more work from Mia, probably), we have discussed hosting a rotation of submissions that would load a different logo each time the page reloads.

To make a submission, do art, then comment it here, or in a DM, or on one of our Matrix channels.

When not preoccupied with fighting fascists, Quill has also been spending some time reading. In his absence he has left us with some notes he has taken. A trigger warning: Rape is discussed in this short synthesis, although purely as a concept.

Quill's Notes: The Broken Teapot

It is important for our support to be real and not performative. We must support each other in deed, and not just in language. This means we cannot follow algorithms in how we structure our accountability — methodologies need to be dynamic enough to not be useful bludgeons in patterns of abuse and revenge. And as we navigate what accountability means for us, we must remember that we arrive into these spaces born into a fucked up world. In every situation, we must center context and avoid trapping ourselves in orthodoxies that we stringently abide.

Abuse is a dynamic between parties — a form of relationship structure. Other unhealthy forms can lead to abuse, and abuse can lead to other unhealthy structures. Examples include jealousy and obsession, which can go unnoticed by the people experiencing it because of the addictive nature of how good it feels to be the object of another's obsession. A common pattern that has arisen in anarchist spaces is avoiding confrontation in order to protect people's feelings. But this approach disregards people's agency as moral actors. We must instead value healthy direct confrontation — it fosters new understandings, cathartic release, and eventually forgiveness.

We cannot truly create safe spaces in a world as broken as the one we live in. The best we can do for each other is to respect each other's autonomy. Processes must not neuter confrontation to overvalue mediation, and consequences ought not have their roots in the pool of police coercion.

When we apply labels like "abuser" and "survivor" to people as mutually exclusive signifiers, we coerce ourselves into treating people without the full nuance they deserve as human beings. This reduction of nuance removes the power of healing from all who need it, and thus is itself an expression of violence. Perp/survivor structuring defaults us into black-and-white thinking that eliminates nuance and places us into the same mental approach as the patriarchal hierarchies we are resisting. The goal should be healing for all parties involved.

Harm is a spectrum. Some harms are more violent than others, but all harms are serious and deserve serious treatment. Making small tweaks within the overall structure of the system we exist in will only make aesthetic changes in our language without addressing the roots of how these problems arise. Addressing harm must center harm reduction, harm prevention, and healing — and how a community fosters these activities is through empathy.

What could I have done to not have hurt this person?

If someone hurts another person and they are not emotionally present in the aftermath, it is impossible to take their feelings into consideration. We need to focus not on blaming others or ourselves, but on making things better.

Part of what makes rape so horrible is it disregards someone's will to self-determination. When we ask questions about rape, we must focus on how to prevent the conditions that allowed it — not speculating on situations outside our ability to influence. Our brains experience memories in non-linear time and can fabricate memories to fit our current experiences while tying them to real traumas. Consent is a dynamic framework of communication and part of a healthy sexual practice — giving and receiving consent is fun when it's done well.

A community is a network of inter-dependencies. Part of getting better at addressing harm is understanding that sometimes we won't ever be able to reach a satisfactory consensus about a situation or a person, and that conflict is not an inherently bad thing. It is better to be flexible and knowledgeable than it is to be consistent.

There are no easy answers, no perfect categories. The world we live in demands flexibility, compassion, intelligence, bravery, and patience.

Yet more notes from @quill7513@anarchist.nexus , now directly from the source

The D Quuuuuill says more stuff about consent, empathy, and moral agency:

These are not notes on any particular reading, but instead a reflection on what it means to put the above into praxis with others. They can be thought of as being notes I took in my own real life about what it means to be me

I just read through y0kai's notes on my notes, and I found myself in a really funny position. It was an extremely accurate condensation of what I had written, which itself was a condensation of what I had been reading when I wrote it. However, I also found myself thinking the person who had written them (myself) had been naive. I still stand by all of them, but they have some VERY challenging nuances when put into practice in real life that I'm still navigating and formulating. When I wrote what I sent y0kai, I had just spent the whole weekend locked in my house reading and writing and reading and thinking. Since then, I've spent my entire week existing in space with my neighbors trying to address the very same problems that had me thinking about all this. One thing we're finding is that in order to follow this advice on how to approach accountability is that empathy alone is not enough. With empathy, but no strong sense of self, you become vulnerable to manipulation tactics weaponized against your empathy. So I would add the additional addendum to the above that when you are starting a process of community healing, to make sure you spend some time healing yourself. To love other people enough to seek they redress the issues they have caused in your life, you have to love yourself enough to know what it is your relationships with other people should look like rather than letting yourself fall into toxic patterns just because they feel good in the moment. You need to have the self confidence to communicate with the world what your needs and boundaries are, and you must have the strength of resolve to act against those who disregard your needs and boundaries, as well as the needs and boundaries of anyone you love.

Anyone who tells you this will be easy is full of shit. All of this is really hard. You will have to contend with that some people will want to trend toward carceral solutions. You will need to contend with that some people will want to avoid having there being any consequences at all, mistaking consequences for punishment. I don't have answers for you. I don't know that answers exist. If anyone has any philosophical or practical theory they want to send my way, I actually welcome it.

EDIT: Late breaking! Please help donate to the development of !pylova@quokk.au here

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October 2026 Update (anarchist.nexus)
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October 2026 Update

Hello! Happy October, Rabi Al-Akhar, Tishrei, and August. Apologies immediately off the bat that I couldn't figure out the current month in the Hindu or Buddhist calendars. Hopefully that's something I can figure out in the future. I want anarchist.nexus to be a space where all anti-authoritarians find a space to be represented. I am early days in this particular "presenting more denotations of the current temporal moment than just the Western Christian Hegemonic representation" project, but I want my siblings across the world wherever they are to at least see that I am trying.

Users of anarchist.nexus will notice that in the past month there have been several quality of life improvements with our server software. PyLova development has enabled some new, really cool, features that I've been enjoying making use of. From my own efforts to contribute to PyLova (which I will readily admit have slowed down because my life has gone busy) I would like to also mention that Mia has been making improvements to the performance side of things. I've been really happy with the new work, and I think you will be, too.

October Essay
Every month I try to use this space to project to you a little bit of what's going on in my head so that you can know the kind of administrator you can expect. I feel a sense of duty towards this, and especially to take it as seriously as the rest of my work. Because of the ways roles work on the fediverse, as an administrator, I have influence and power over what the experience on anarchist.nexus is like. The only way I can feel comfortable with this power is if I lay bare the hands I use to make decisions so that you can decide if this is a place you want to spend time. No one can control what you think, and I certainly don't want to try to. All I want to do is to create a safe environment where people can share their thoughts so that all of us can grow and mold the thoughts we're most interested in exploring.

This month, I've been thinking the most about prison abolition. Not as in I'm thinking the most of that of any person, but as in this is the thought that's been occupying the most of my brain. I can't go into too much detail, but recently a Friend was detained for work that I think is very noble. The world around us is chaotic and violent in service of maintaining the coercive ecocidal genocides that burn around the planet. This Friend was accused of the terroristic actions of "preventing a petrochemical company from killing a bio-region." This Friend was up to 15 years in prison for these "crimes." Ultimately, this is because laws can only ever serve to maintain the status quo, and the current status quo we exist within is harmful.

So what can we do about it? I encourage everyone to do a few things:

  1. Join, or found, a worker's union at your workplace. Take particular note of the Industrial Workers of the World as a potential resource for helping you do this
  2. Join, or found, a tenant's union with your neighbors to help protect you from parascitic landlords
  3. Join, or found, mutual aid efforts in your area to lessen the stranglehold the ownership class has on you and your friends' and neighbors throats
  4. Join, or found, a community defense initiative in your area

Sorry this month's update isn't longer, I have to talk to some people about donations to bail funds. My lesson learned this month for anarchist.nexus is that I should probably write these updates a week in advance. Last month my lesson was to write down on my calendar that I am going to do them. My commitment to you is to continue to take this as seriously as I do the rest of my work building neighborhoods where neighbors help eachother, because selfishly, that's the kind of neighborhood I want to live in.

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September 2026 Update (anarchist.nexus)
submitted 2 months ago by to c/bloc@anarchist.nexus
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Hi all! It's time for the monthly A.N. update. Quill, as he will explain below, has been very busy this month and so I am posting in his absence. Enjoy, and if you have anything to add, please do so in the comments!

September 2026

Hello! I am going to be upfront with you. @y0kai messaged me recently asking me what updates I wanted to share with everyone and I've been so wrapped up in my own nonsense that I had forgotten to think about what's going on with Anarchist.Nexus. I'll try to do that more in the future. But for this month, I still want to give you something that is my contribution to this community, so I want to focus on the goings on (that I know about) in Anarchism, past, present, and future.

Past

Past

This past week, we celebrated and mourned the coming and going of the Machnovschina and the Battle of Blair Mountain. It's not often that we think about how these two events were interrelated, however, I think it's important to acknowledge. Nestor Makhno did not view himself as just a Ukrainian warlord fighting for anti-hierarchical systems where he was, but fighting for anti-hierarchical systems everywhere. In the stories I've been told, one of his dreams was that anthracite coal miners in Luhansk and in West Virginia could be free of the torture of the industrial capitalist system.

Days before the dissolution of the Makhnovist army, 10,000 coal miners from Virginia, West Virginia, Tennessee, Kentucky, and Pennsylvania gathered to demand the right for miners in West Virginia to form a union. Neither the Makhnovists nor the Rednecks got everything they were looking for in 1921, however, they still shifted what the world viewed as was possible. 6 years later, when the Industrial Workers of the World coordinated the Colorado Coal Strike, they succeeded.

Present

Present

I'm going to start this section with an at least slightly personal note. On August 31st, Wendell Berry passed away. His work to advance appropriate agriculture, peace and kindness, and their inter-relatedness to art will be dearly missed. If you're unfamiliar with his work, here's some selected recommended works:

  • Nothing Living Lives Alone
  • Against the Death Penalty
  • Distant Neighbors
  • A Place on Earth
  • The Unsettling of America: Culture and Agriculture
  • Roots to the Earth

But even in our losses, there are good things on the horizon. Most specifically, book fairs! Here are some coming up:

  • Another Carolina Anarchist Book fair (ACAB) (Asheville, North Carolina) (Sep 18-20)
  • A Better World Is Possible Book fair (Waynesboro, Virginia) (Sep 19)
  • NYC Anarchist Book Fair (New York, New York) (Sep 24-27)
  • Seattle Anarchist Book Fair (Seattle, Washington) (Sep 26-27)
  • Bay Area Anarchist Book Fair (Oakland, California) (Oct 3)
  • Boston Anarchist Book Fair (Boston, Massachusetts) (Nov 7-8)

Future

Future

If you're around people who organize their lives, you've probably heard that it's planner season. The two I'm aware of that are worth recommending are:

  • Slingshot Organizer (made by the same group holding the Bay Area Anarchist Book Fair mentioned above)
  • Dreaming The World To Come 5787 (for the radical leftist Jews out there)

Additionally, AK Press has put out their 2027 calendars:

  • Social Justice Kittens
  • Certain Days (freedom for political prisoners)
  • Shall We Begin

And finally, a short essay of sorts from @y0kai@anarchist.nexus

Praxis for the Anti-Social

What do I mean by anti-social?

Those of you that know me probably don't think of me as anti-social. I am a friendly socialist, after all. But the internet holds a very different social dynamic than real life. I can't see your face, I don't know your real name, and I won't think you're standing too closely, or speaking too loudly as I read your typed thoughts from thousands of miles away.

I am an anarchist. With hope for the future, I try to view humanity in a positive light. I believe most people desire the same things: Full bellies, warm relations, and agency all come to mind. I want to help the people around me meet their needs where our current system has failed them. I want to provide them with tools to help themselves and others and create infrastructures that run parallel to and outside the control of existing state mechanisms. I think these are objectively pro-social things and I want to do them because I care about the people around me and their well-being. I just don't like them all that much.

Despite everyone's best qualities, they're also often loud, rude, smelly, inattentive, self-absorbed, etc. I know this about them because I am them. Naturally, this means I don't go out much. I'd prefer to work from home, and I am generally very selective about who I spend time with IRL. Perhaps the word I'm really looking for is asocial? Regardless, it makes praxis difficult. Nearly everything I read about resistance is targeted toward the more outgoing members of society.

What do I mean by praxis?

Praxis, according to a dictionary I forgot to cite, is:

"The process of using a theory or something that you have learned in a practical way".

As an anarchist, a leftist, or a whatever-your-thing-is-ist, if you care enough about your cause, you'll want to assist its furtherance in some way. Doing so is praxis.

I've found that a common question for those new to any cause is: "What can I do to help in my area?" We're almost always given the same answers. We're told, "Get organized, join or start a union, go to every protest until you get to know people, volunteer with Food Not Bombs or your local soup kitchen", and so on. I find this is all excellent advice for other people. I'd love to do those things regularly and not feel out of place and overwhelmed. I hope to at some point.

For now though, it occurs to me that there are probably a lot of other people in similar situations. Despite a desire to help a social cause, for whatever reason, there are those who find themselves unable to contribute in a traditional, socially active setting.

If you're one of those people, here are some different ideas:

Anti-social praxis ideas

Creating dual power structures

While the idea of "power in numbers" is a key aspect of any movement, power is also found in myriad other places. Power is found in knowledge, physical and structural strength, logistics, communication, tools and infrastructure, and so on. Through creativity and modern technology, one can act in solidarity with community without actually being physically or even synchronously present with that community.

For the skilled or technically inclined

People need infrastructure that isn't under state or corporate control. If you have certain skills (and it's very likely you have at least one helpful skill), there is a lot you can do without having to interact with many people, if anyone at all.

Here's a list of things that require certain skill sets to accomplish, but that don't require much socialization and can be extremely helpful to your community:

  • Fixing potholes or other forms of guerilla urbanism
  • Setting up a private server network for friends and family to reduce dependence on Google, Netflix, Spotify, etc. (can be done relatively cheaply with slightly older machines)
  • Building and installing meshtastic networks
  • Creating "How-to" websites teaching people valuable skills
  • Leveraging a drone-flying hobby to bring food or supplies to the unhoused
    • Other drone uses that come to mind are copwatch (or ICE watch) and, if you can get a drone to use a can of spray paint, you could take out flock cameras from the safety of an abandoned building.

Library economies

If you've got a yard, a garage, or a spot people can access publicly, along with some items you don't mind sharing (or possibly losing forever) you can contribute to the library economy. Common methods of adding to the library economy include:

Propaganda and education

Not enough people in my country know what anything left of neoliberalism actually is. They only receive capitalist fear mongering and brainwashing that generally begins at birth. We're taught that communism is evil and that capitalism and country are objectively good. Nevermind the fact that my country is both directly and indirectly responsible for: genocides, coups, unjust wars, kidnapping world leaders, and *checks notes* ...oh yeah, chattel slavery. We'll just gloss over all of that, thanks.

Maybe the place you call home is similar. Maybe it's worse. Fortunately, you can educate people without actually having to be physically present. Look! I'm doing it right now!

Here are some ideas:

  • Start a Podcast / YouTube / PeerTube channel
    • This sounds intimidating, but seriously your content can be as simple as reading a book out loud. Alternatively you could nerd out on your favorite topic. Just remember why you're doing it. Fuck advertisers and fuck YouTube. They're only here because people use them and if you want to reach people, you have to "go where they are".
  • Political art / Graffiti
    • Got a knack for art? It can be an incredibly powerful medium for social commentary and the entire world can either be painted, or have stickers applied.
    • If you're not artistic, you can still do some cool shit. For example, if you're in the US, you can get free labels from the post office that are very sticky. If you've got a printer, you can turn them into sticky QR codes that link to any website you want. Stick them in public places where people are likely to be waiting around and/or a little bored, like bus stops or public bathroom stalls and have them link to something educational, like the podcast you started when you read the bullet above this one, or maybe this video about why you shouldn't talk to the cops.
    • Wheatpasting
  • Zines
    • If you're a writer, you could make a zine and distribute it.
    • If you're more of a reader than a writer, you can find, read, and print zines you like and then go around sticking them in the little free libraries from the section above.

Illegalism

I think I've danced around this, as I often do. Some of the things above are illegal, but they probably won't land you in jail. Or, at least not for very long. Doing illegal things just because they are illegal is pretty stupid and cops are pretty unforgiving so, think before you do anything rash. Whatever you do, stay safe, and leave no trace.

  • Steal from the rich and give to the poor
  • Smash your local flock cameras
  • Feed leftover restaurant food to homeless people (truly inhumane that this is illegal in some places)
  • Drop caltrops where you notice cops like to hide in their cars
  • Steal and/or burn fascist flags & symbols

We are not excluded just because we are not seen

I think it is important to remember that in any society, in any community, that there are members who are seldom seen nor heard from. A person's inactivity within the social sphere does not mean they are not members of the community and a desire to keep to oneself does not preclude one's desire to be a helpful agent of change.

While there is great value in organization and the forming of relationships to support a cause, these are not the only forms of praxis at our disposal. The ideas I've posted here can all be performed alone as easily as they can with a group and, perhaps, the act of just doing some of these things will form those relationships on their own, without the pressure of going to a predefined social thing where you don't know anyone.

Before I wrap up, I want it to be known that I'm a bit ignorant in some areas so if I've said something stupid, let me know. Similarly, if you have other ideas to add to the list, post those too.

Thanks,

- y0kai

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PyLova v0.3.2 Released! Muffles, Reels, Flags, Bookmarks, and more! Announcement (anarchist.nexus)
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PyLova (Python+Pavlova) is a soft fork of PieFed, aimed at improving the user experience through UI overhauls, empowering users and admins with agency, improved administration and moderation functions, and general bug fixing.

New in V0.3.2

New & Improved

  • Muffle Users : Instead of outright blocking a user, you can now 'Muffle' them. This will place their content behind a spoiler. This functionality has also been extended to the filter system.
  • Live Posts : Mods can designate a post as a Live Post. A Live Post will continuously update with new posts coming through will sorting by new. This is great for keeping track on currently happening events such as global news or sports.
  • Reel View : This is a new way to browse the site, putting it into 'Reel' view shows one post per scroll. Cuts out the noise, allowing you to appreciate one post at a time.
  • User Flags : Want to show off who you are? Add a flag next to your pronouns. These small flags can be set by instance admins, great show showing Pride Flags, Sports Teams, Nationalities, Political Ideologies, etc.
  • Bookmark Organisation : Users can now sort their bookmarked posts and comments by folders.
  • Admin Notes : Admins and Instance Moderators can share notes about users on their profile page, this can be handy in building a history of bad behaviour or sharing concerns.
  • Account Oversight : Admins and Instance Moderators have greater ability to search through a users upvoted and downvoted content.
  • New Theme : Nocturne Core @luminous5481@anarchist.nexus has wonderfully created a Sci-Fi inspired theme you can apply.

Bug-Fixes & Misc

  • Lemmy/Mbin support for Multi-Image Posts : Multi-Image Posts will now add the extra images into the post body for users on Lemmy and Mbin so they don't have to miss out on your amazing content.
  • Censorship Transparency : On the instance about page, there is now a one-stop location for viewing what sort of things are being censored by your instance.
  • Options Menu : The menu has been updated with a more navigable UI in 3 Panel Mode.
  • Reactions Only Mode : A small setting for instance admins to 'turn off' up and downvotes, letting posts only have emoji reactions. Note, emoji reacts do technically count as an upvote and this is more of a visual change in regards to user view.
  • Trusted Instances Only Federation : Communities can already be set to local only, this feature allows communities to only be visible on those in your instances trusted list.
  • Banned Users can now unsubscribe from a community, allowing them to remove it from their feed.
  • Blocked/Unfederated Instances now show more information, such as allowing for reasons why it was removed.
  • Poll Post Type teasers had a slight visual inconsistency, their icon should now align properly with every other post type.
  • Flair, Tags, & Live Status all follow the same visual format. Also now visible on post teasers.
  • General Performance Improvements.
  • Code Refactoring to follow a more pythonic style guide and reduce McCabe complexity.
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NOCTURNE CORE - New theme for PyLova inbound! Announcement (anarchaos.s3.eu-central-003.backblazeb2.com)
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A fresh new theme is on the way, ported from an HTML template I made. No hard date on availability, but expect within the next week or so.

There will be a light mode wih this one, i just haven't made it yet.

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If you can see this, we've got some new features... Announcement (anarchaos.s3.eu-central-003.backblazeb2.com)
submitted 2 months ago by to c/bloc@anarchist.nexus
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Greetings fellow Anarchists!

We bring you the upgraded PyLova, including multi-image posts. As we are running some bleeding-edge stuff, please let us know if you run into bugs and we'll try to squash them rapidly.

Enjoy!

-Tenchiken

A fruit-covered Pavlova dessert, with a second image of Samuel Jackson in Jurassic Park saying "Hold on to your butts"
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August 2026 Update Announcement Casual (anarchist.nexus)
submitted 3 months ago by to c/bloc@anarchist.nexus
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Anarchist.Nexus August Update

Hi! I'm going to start trying to put together monthly updates here so that people know what's going on. I'm going to try to keep them appropriately informal so that the focus is still on you, the existing community, and your needs. My hope is that this can become a space where people can voice ideas and inspirations about what they want this part of the FAF to be.

My current plan is that these updates will happen on a monthly basis on the first sunday of every month. This one will probably be the longest for a while, but more should come in the future.

Introduction

A Belated Introduction

Hello, !Bloc@anarchist.nexus! I'm the newest admin on Anarchist.Nexus. I've actually been admining here for a little over a month but never posted my introduction when I first got on-boarded because I was more focused on immersing myself in the existing culture of this instance. By the time I was fully feeling comfortable it was the middle of the month and I was busy collecting bricks to build some solar kilns in the southern coal fields of West Virginia that are still without water after Hurricane Helene obliterated a lot of our communities from Western North Carolina all the way through Southern West Virginia with Southwest Virginia in between being where I'm located.

A little about me

My username may already be familiar to some of you. I've been here on the threadiverse since the first wave of the Reddit exodus 3 years ago. I first joined Beehaw.org as Cube6391. When they defederated from Lemmy.World and Sh.itJust.Works I created a secondary account on Sh.itJust.Works. Not long into my time on Sh.itJust.Works I got frustrated with some things there and decided to start scoping out another instance to be on. It was during that time that I noticed that the technohippies on SLRPNK.net were generally all saying stuff I agreed with and that their admins administered their instance nearly exactly how I would want an instance to be administered. So I joined there. And that's probably how most of you have come to know me over the last two years: As the long-winded weirdo who likes folk lore, folk music, and straddles a line between religious anarchist and anarcho communist while always upholding eco-anarchist values (at least I think it's always... Close to, anyway).

But this is not my first introduction to the Fediverse at large. I set up my first Mastodon account back in either 2015 or 2016. I don't remember the exact timing. But this is something I've been into and about for a long time. I'm really interested in the ways we can create a more human internet inspired by web1 and the positive aspects of web2 that were corrupted by the capitalist incentives that drive Silicon Valley (frequently called Web0 or Smoll Web).

What this means for you

Hopefully nothing! Part of why I kept so quiet at first was that I really wanted to make sure I was keeping things running the way they were already running without disrupting the ecosystem that's already present here. I feel comfortable now stepping a little more into the light now that I'm positive I'm not an invasive species in your ecosystem (check out the sexy new link to the FAF wiki page in the sidebar. That's new! I put that there!)

I think the only thing you can truly expect is that my modlog messages might be a touch verbose. One of my managers once told me that when I arrived at the office he was immediately furstrated that whoever had booted me up had done so with -vvvvvv configured. I apologize in advance, however I will continue to be a verbose person as I actually try to be efficient in my communication. This means keeping my language simple, but explaining my thought processes so that you understand where I'm coming from when I do things.

There can only be peace when there is justice, and there can only be justice when there is peace. Given this, I try to treat everyone I interact with with dignity, respect, and kindness. However I will also not tolerate bullshit threats to the community and community members here. These are interrelated practices, and I do not think either can be done without the other.

Okay! That's the serious stuff out of the way, here's some silly bullshit

I'm just a human behind a keyboard. I have loves and interests, just like you. You don't have to read any of this. I put the important stuff up front because it's the part for this post you care about. But in the long term, who I am and how I behave will impact you so I want to make sure you know who I am and how I behave.

A lot of my anarchist journey relates to my upbringing in majority minority neighborhoods. I've seen firsthand the people accomplish more working together than turning against each other to receive temporary favor in a system that is structured against anyone who works for a living. Given this perspective, I've learned to see how people carry advice about resistance in their cultural signifiers (song, dance, story, dress, food, etc), so those tend to be the things I take the most interest in on the Threadiverse. I'm a firm believer that we have a more understanding of the whole world if we seek perspectives outside of our own.

Resistance to all of the horribleness in the world is something I take very seriously.

And I look forward to helping all of you do it

Another Introduction

Another Belated Introduction

Hi everyone! I’m y0kai, one of the admins here at Anarchist.Nexus. A dbzer0 user for some time, I've been around AN for almost a year now, and have been helping out as an admin for 8 months. Under the guidance of our venerable @tenchiken@anarchist.nexus, I work mostly behind the scenes in a junior sysadmin capacity. Still, I also do the occasional reviewing of applications and making site edits here and there, but otherwise I try to keep things hands-off so the community can breathe on its own terms.

Why an intro now?

I've been here for a year and this is my first "introduction". Why now?

While I spend much of my time in the FAF matrix chat and I love a good comment thread, I have just never been much of a prolific poster. There are probably a lot of reasons for this and like me, they're somewhat private and not all that important. What is important is that I am currently stealing some of @quill7513@anarchist.nexus 's gusto and using it to motivate myself to do more for my community, both here and in meat-space.

Despite my absense of posts, I do enjoy writing and I have been looking for ways to engage in praxis. So, when he mentioned he wanted to put together monthly updates, I thought it might be fun to help out. Then, I saw the intro he wrote and thought to myself, "Well damn, I should probably do that too."

So, here we are.

How do I intend to contribute to these updates?

In the interest of honesty, sometimes I might not. If I don't have anything to say, haven't learned anything new worth sharing, or am just too distracted or tired, I think it's best to leave space for other voices to be heard. Perhaps yours?

That said, I hope to contribute in a way that furthers community discussion and builds relationships while inspiring direct action and mutual aid. I know we tend to be disparate and geographically distant bunch on the internet, but I see that as a strength, as we have the ability to learn from and even share resources with people from everywhere.

So, lets do that.

Update

New communities

There's not much to update you on this month since the last month was mostly spent with me getting my legs under me. However I am excited to introduce the following new communities created this month:

A late breaking Big News!

Anarchist.Nexus is now running on pylova. Click around! See how you like it.

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Announcement of defederation from lemmy.org (unmoderated instance) (lemmy.dbzer0.com)
submitted 6 months ago by to c/bloc@anarchist.nexus
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cross-posted from: https://lemmy.dbzer0.com/post/67988840

Note: this is a routine censure that we all felt wasn't worth putting to a user vote at this time, since it should be fairly uncontroversial to defederate from an unmoderated instance.

Censure reason

Unmoderated instance, now operated by Mazdak, the CEO of "https://ad.plus/", an AI ad-tech company. Admin is unresponsive to reports of bigotry and transphobia, and is not responding to attempts at contact by other admins.

Additional context from other instance admins

Have seen an uptick of trolls and hit-and-run accounts from this instance. Registrations are open with captcha-only.

this instance appears to have zero checks on signups, not even asking for emails, making this a welcome home for trolls and ban evaders who will even boast about it in other communities. the instance appears to be effectively unmoderated, as the admin of the instance only seems to take action when spam is posted in their local communities, despite frequently being active by posting to their own communities.

I sent a DM to the lemmy.org admin a few days ago and have not received a reply. They've been plenty active since the DM, so it's clear to me that they don't particularly care that I defederated them or about this issue

Other details

Unfortunately, the admin of lemmy.org, Mazdak, is a self-declared AI ad-tech company bro, who has reportedly been trying to sell Lemmy.org for a huge sum.

Concerningly, the admin has not been responding to reports of bigotry and other serious content violations, and they have already been defederated by blahaj.zone for this reason, and we have followed suit.

Moderation of lemmy.org has effectively ceased for many communities, and several instance admins have seen an increase in use by bad actors. E.g., just yesterday:

We will of course reconsider this situation if the admin reaches out and agrees to start actively managing reports.

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Join the Pledge to boycott lemmy.world! (lemmy.dbzer0.com)
submitted 6 months ago by to c/bloc@anarchist.nexus
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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!

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Proposed instance defederation for multiverse.soulism.net - an instance administrated by Grail aka Dronerights aka Hardlightcereal aka Exocrinous aka Drag (lemmy.dbzer0.com)
submitted 6 months ago by to c/bloc@anarchist.nexus
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Please note that Anarchist Nexus users will need to vote with their dbzer0 registered account in the !div0_governance@lemmy.dbzer0.com community for your votes to be counted.

Voting on this crosspost won't count.

cross-posted from: https://lemmy.dbzer0.com/post/67198913

This is a FAF defederation vote for !multiverse.soulism.net. Note that I have tried to summarize views both for and against this proposal, rather than pushing a particular view. Please feel free to comment if you want to contribute your own thoughts and experiences.

The reason for this vote is that admins have been getting a lot of reports about Grail and Their instance from our users lately, but tbh I am not sure whether the reports warrant a ban or not. While most cases are more clear-cut, I wanted some more admin & community feedback on this one.

For context, the soulism instance is (for all practical purposes) a personal instance run by infamous fediverse "personality", Grail. Grail is suspected to be a recent alt of DroneRights aka HardlightCereal aka Exocrinous aka Dragon Rider aka Drag.

Grail, the current incarnation, is (imo) a liberal progressive masquerading as a leftist (a self-described "Anarcho-Antireal theorist" whatever the fuck that is). And I really don't think this qualifies as a "No true Scotsman" situation where it's arguable either way - it's immediately obvious from reading Their comment history.

I don't really want to rehash the extensive history of this user and Their alts in detail here, however I'm pretty sure long-term Lemmy users will be aware of at least some of these previous alt accounts, which have been almost universally banned. I'll try my best to summarize the issues below.

The case for defederation

Here's some recent examples/summaries of why the user is so problematic:

  • Concise summary of past trolling behavior: .
  • Recent YPTB post: Banned for Nuttin'
  • Recent example of Grail's electoralism and criticism of c/flipanarchy rules, including a claim that pugjesus isn't a turbolib 😂 https://lemmy.dbzer0.com/post/63720883
  • More blue MAGA electoralism demonstrating that the user is about as "leftist" as Joe Biden

Recent examples of hating on / agitating against our instance:

The case against defederation

  • Grail is neurodivergent (trans and NPD afaik), so we should be willing to make some accommodations for Their behaviour
  • While some folks (including myself at the time, unfortunately) took the "DroneRights" account as an attempt to troll transgender folk with the "my gender is an attack helicopter" line, it could also have been a genuine attempt to advocate for xenogenders. There's no way to know 100% for sure what Their intentions truly were, but on reflection and with the benefit of time, I think it could be reasonably argued They should have been given the benefit of the doubt on that topic.
  • Just because this user seems to have a grudge against our instance and bad-jackets anyone to their left as politically "right wing" doesn't mean we should ban them. They are still entitled to express their opinion.
  • Given Grail's unique personality, is there anywhere else They would potentially fit in other than the Fediverse? Maybe we should cut Them some slack and just let users block Them individually.

Warning

Please do not attempt to re-litigate the topic of xenogenders in this post. Such comments will be removed as off-topic. As an instance, our policy is to respect personal pronouns, whatever they are. This is not a referendum on the validity of xenogenders. The topic of the post is clear - whether or not we should defederate from the multiverse.soulism.net instance. If you want to bring your own experiences into the comments that is fine, but please keep them pertinent to whether or not we should defederate from this instance / user on the basis of Their problematic behaviours, not on the basis of Their identity or pronouns.

Instructions

The proposal is:

We should defederate from the multiverse.soulism.net instance due to an extensive history of trolling by the main admin's alts, and due to the admin being openly hostile to our instance.

Please upvote this post to vote for defederation. Downvote to remain federated. This proposal will require a 2/3 majority to pass.

P.S., Please be sure to use Grail's preferred pronouns of "capitalised They/Them", so we don't have to remove comments for misgendering.

Purportedly the "Soulism" flag
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New custom emojis? New custom emojis! Announcement Meme Request (anarchist.nexus)
submitted 8 months ago by to c/bloc@anarchist.nexus
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Comrades, Heathens, Fellow Russian Assets,

I have recently been given permission from our Dearest Leader at Anarchist Party Headquarters to embark upon a bold new mission, to seek out new memes and new custom emojis. to moldly go where no shitposter has gone before!

and so I ask for your help. I am in need of suggestions for custom emojis to add. I am certain that some of you have some, perhaps tucked away somewhere in a dusty folder behind that gooch encrusted keyboard of yours (this is your reminder to get out the q-tips and alcohol, it's worse than you think).

I've already added a special one just for you anti-AI sloppers, and it's a baby crying about AI ( :slopper: ). in light of recent events, I found it highly appropriate. please submit any complaints about this to the nearest Russian Embassy.
:slopper:

I've also added one the people who are angrily beginning to type on their keyboard might like ( :nonazis:). if you have any complaints about this one, then please submit said complaint to the nearest large predator.
:nonazis:

this is your chance to make the rest of fedi sigh at best, and curse us at worst.

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Brief outage Feb 21st (anarchaos.s3.eu-central-003.backblazeb2.com)
submitted 8 months ago by to c/bloc@anarchist.nexus
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Ahoy! It would seem that the Hetzner Helsinki Datacenter is having an outage that caught our little corner of the webs...

Luckily, our backups were updated just before their systems went down, and I was able to spin up a replacement and move DNS over. While things all cleared on my scopes, if you see trouble, please reach out in a DM.

Alternately, find us via matrix:

https://matrix.to/#/#faf-flotilla-lounge:anarchist.nexus

Apologies for the troubles!

nuclear mushroom cloud
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The FAF Defederates from Feddit.org (self.bloc)
submitted 8 months ago by to c/bloc@anarchist.nexus
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This has been a contentious topic, sparking much debate but following the Governance post (feddit.org's Zionist bar problem: community ban(s) vote), the Fediverse Anarchist Flotilla has decided to fully defedeate from from Feddit.org.

It follows a model of BDS from pro-Zionist/Israeli sources, showing that views such as genocide denial are not welcome in a polite society. This further backs up the FAF's strong commitment to not supporting pro-Zionism as with its Golden Rule #8

Users had expressed some reservations around losing access to feddit.org communities, some of which have dbzer0 hosted alternatives such as !europe@lemmy.dbzer0.com, !buyfromeu@lemmy.dbzer0.com. Others can be found across the wider fediverse such as !buyeuropean@feddit.uk.

But wait, isn't it un-Anarchist to not support complete free speech? Not at all my dear friend. Voluntary association is a core Anarchist principle, and as such exercising the freedom to stop associating with others is part of that. If the Feddit.org admin team decides to change their stance of support for Israel, perhaps the community may vote to refederate in the future.

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I think anarchist.nexus has blocked my VPN IP. Bug (anarchist.nexus)
submitted 8 months ago by to c/bloc@anarchist.nexus
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Does this mean I need a new one or can I request it be unblocked?

cheers.

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feddit.org's Zionist bar problem: community ban(s) vote (lemmy.dbzer0.com)
submitted 8 months ago by to c/bloc@anarchist.nexus
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cross-posted from: https://lemmy.dbzer0.com/post/63525728

Ahoy mateys!

A few of our users have recently pointed out that a lot of the pro-Zionist accounts on the fediverse nowadays seem to come from the feddit.org instance.

Feddit.org's explanation for this situation seems to fit into a few common variations:

  • They accept both pro- and anti-Zionist members, so it's not proof of a bias.
  • They [choose to] comply [in advance] with strict German / Swiss / Austrian laws regarding [overly broad] "antisemitic" language, or they might get in trouble.
  • Calling for the destruction of Israel must obviously mean you want to kill every last man, woman and child, rather than simply wanting to overthrow Netanyahu's genocidal fascist regime. Because [bad faith] reasons.
  • Lots of Euros (and Germans specifically) are pro-Zionist, so they feel like they have to accommodate this view.

But whatever the excuse happens to be, they need to do better imo. Israel is currently the most violent, fascist and genocidal nation state in the Middle East (if you exclude the US military bases there). And yet feddit.org seems to regard the Palestinians fighting against Israel's ongoing illegal occupation of their land as the real terrorists. As such, I am calling for feddit.org to:

  • Explicitly prohibit pro-Zionist accounts from joining.
  • Take measures to resolve their claimed legal issues, e.g., moving their server location to a less regulated jurisdiction, and ensuring that admin accounts remain anonymous regarding their location.
  • Stop referring to folks who call for "Death to Israel" or similar as though they are the terrorists or violent extremists. The Zionist Israeli settlers, the murderous IDF rapists, and the entirety of the Israeli government are clearly the violent ethnostate extremists we should be worried about, not the Palestinians in Gaza who are fighting for their lives every single day against completely disproportionate levels of Zionist violence.

More context

Our instance already voted to ban pro-Zionist accounts (see https://lemmy.dbzer0.com/post/60585441 for reference) and the rule that was implemented is here: Golden Rule #8.

As further context, you can find relevant comments and discussion in this post by a banned feddit admin in MoG (that fact they chose to post in MoG is in itself quite telling), and this post about their defederation from quokk.au over anti-semitism allegations has recently become active again.

I've also pulled out some choice morsels from the modlog to illustrate the sort of thing we are talking about:

This one says it all... mrdown@lemmy.world being banned for calling out feddit.org users for being Zionist apologists. It's apparently "xenophobic" to state a few hard truths.

If you have had similar experiences on feddit.org, please feel free to share in the comments.

Voting instructions

I am proposing to ban the following communities from feddit.org, which seem to be the most problematic communities in terms of hosting pro-Zionist posts/comments:

Upvote this post if you want dbzer0 / anarchist nexus to ban these communities.

Downvote this post if you'd prefer not to ban these communities.

Note 1: Votes from external instances do not count, unless one of our admins has vouched for you.

Note 2: If you think feddit.org deserves a full instance ban instead, or have alternative suggestions, then please leave your comments below. If enough people think that's the better option, then we'll do that instead.

Note 3: Although I don't really expect this to happen, if feddit.org agrees to make policy changes to address these issues then we are willing to reassess the situation.

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Sails on the horizon! Instance vote to accept Quokk.au as a new member of the Fediverse Anarchist Flotilla [GenAI] [Flotilla] (lemmy.dbzer0.com)
submitted 10 months ago by to c/bloc@anarchist.nexus
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cross-posted from: https://lemmy.dbzer0.com/post/60724228

Since the New Year is here, what better way to ring it in than with a new Flotilla member and a drink o' rum?

Over the past couple of days, Qk from Quokk.au reached out to us about the possibility of joining up with the Fediverse Anarchist Flotilla. This was really cool news for all of us, and imo they will be a great addition!

What's the Fediverse Anarchist Flotilla and isn't it a bit of a mouthful?

Yes it is, let's call it FAF for short. Lol.

For the full deets of what that means exactly, check out db0's original post on the topic Announcing anarchist.nexus and the launch of the Fediverse Anarchist Flotilla.

But in short, it means:

  • Same rules - Quokk.au will adopt AN/dbzer0's existing rules and policies.
  • Same staff - We'll have common Matrix rooms for admin discussions and user appeals, and provide mutual aid to other instances as required (e.g. if someone needs a break).
  • Common governance - Likewise, we will share a common federation/defederation list and ban-list. Notably for Quokk.au that also means enabling federation with places like Hexbear.net and Feddit.org, unless as a flotilla we decide that this should change.

Fire away if anyone has any questions, but make sure you read the FAF announcement post first, because it explains a lot!

Voting instructions

  • Upvote this post to welcome Quokk.au to the Flotilla
  • Downvote this post to fire the cannons

N.B. Quokk.au will be holding its own vote on joining the flotilla at the same time as ours. I'll add the linked post once they are both posted.

Happy New Year mateys!

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The no zionism rule isn't mentioned on dbzer0 (anarchist.nexus)
submitted 10 months ago by to c/bloc@anarchist.nexus
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So I saw this post when browsing: https://anarchist.nexus/c/slop/p/326064/cw-fascist-symbols-the-absolute-state-of-the-german-left. After sitting in the back of my mind for quite a while it sparked an idle interest in the rules of this instance where I saw the No Zionism rule. I then checked the rules of dbzer0 but couldn't find the same rule. The flotilla post says that both instances should have the same rules so I'm just wondering if this has changed?

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Why is anarchist.nexus using cloudflare? Bug Request (lemmy.dbzer0.com)
submitted 11 months ago by to c/bloc@anarchist.nexus
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Thanks to cloudflare being down for me right now I discovered that the server uses it. Is it really necessary? dbzer0 doesn't. I get that it offerers security and hides the IP but an anarchist community relying on a centralised company like this is a problem, as this outage showcases.

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‘I love Hitler’: Leaked messages expose Young Republicans’ racist chat Casual (www.politico.com)
submitted 1 year ago by to c/bloc@anarchist.nexus
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Announcing anarchist.nexus and the launch of the Fediverse Anarchist Flotilla [GenAI] [Flotilla] Announcement (lemmy.dbzer0.com)
submitted 1 year ago by to c/bloc@anarchist.nexus
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cross-posted from: https://lemmy.dbzer0.com/post/52641276

Ever since I created this instance, I wanted this corner of the fediverse to explore new radical ways to run online social media which attempts to tear down the built-in hierarchies of website hosting. The first step of this was the introduction of admin recalls a while ago, and when some of my co-admins approached me about also adding a piefed.dbzer0.com domain I saw an opportunity to attempt something I've been mulling on for a while: An Anarchist Confederation!

You see, the issue with running a social media, is that there's always a hierarchy with one person or organization having "the keys to the kingdom", whether this is the person with sudo access, or the one who bought the domain etc. This is an inescapable reality of website hosting we cannot get around (Yes, I'm aware of things like nostr etc, but those have ending issues that are beyond the scope of this post). So at the end, you always end up with some form of BDFL, or at best, a non-profit somewhere with an oligarchy of people controlling it.

The Fediverse system is a good-ish solution to that. We get to have social media without any one entity controlling the whole network, but we still have a ton of (beefing) kings and kingdoms instead. Places go down, places come up, people are not sure where to set up accounts and so on. And each of those fediverse instances still have that inherent hierarchy, so the members of say, lemmy.world, are still beholden to the actions of its admins, and their only option is to uproot their whole presence there and go elsewhere, without any safety that the next admin won't cause them issues as well.

So I had the idea, what if we create one single entity, which is nevertheless still not controlled by any one person? When you join that entity, you still get to know what it stands for, and can choose any of the services it operates, but most of those services will be run by different people, so it's not possible for one of them to go rogue or have a burnout and ruin the whole thing.

Ultimately, this approach is meant to protects you, from people like me, pre-emptively.

So when the idea was floated of running an anarchist piefed along with /0, I suggested this concept to the other admins, who happily agreed to give it a try. This had the added benefit of not adding yet more website hosting overhead to myself and to also give a more stable stake to the admins who did the hosting job. Now not only do the admins of anarchist.nexus have the piefed instance they wanted, but they have the extra safety of me not being able to ruin the whole thing by having a burnout/meltdown/stroke or being arrested/disappeared etc.

But the point is not merely to have yet another fediverse instance. The idea here is that we're much more tightly woven together, which further increases the social costs of someone going rogue, as well as strengthens the bonds of all the people involved, making us stronger as a team. What does this mean in practice? All the Flotilla members agree to the following:

Same Rules

This means that all instances in the flotilla follow the same rules, including those voted by our combined community. This means that whether you're part of lemmy.dbzer0.com or anarchist.nexus, we're still following the same code of conduct, we have the same rules like admin recalls, disengage and so on. You can choose your flavor or software, without having to worry about re-learning new rules or admin idiosyncrasies.

Same staff

The Flotilla is built around the idea of sharing workloads. So the members of the instances agree to have admins and sysadmins which can float between them. This is not only meant to strengthen the common control, but also the trust and finally to only require one announcement for new admins, instead of having to have different admin onboarding/recalls per service.

This doesn't necessarily mean that each admin/sysadmin will be active in all instances. For example I don't have the time to be actively involved in anarchist.nexus atm, but I could easily do so if I found it. This creates a much easier way to spread our abilities according to our needs. People who have more capacity, can smoothly go to help in more instances, while those overwhelmed can dedicate themselves to fewer. We hope this both reduces the chance of burnout and gives flotilla members greater flexibility, by being able to use their preferred fediverse software, while staying within a community they helped build-up.

Common Governance

As a natural extension of those two concepts above. The instances will have a shared governance system. This means we will have a common governance community and voting structure. All validated members of the flotilla will be able to vote in governance threads with the same restrictions as we have now.

Likewise, all instances will have a normalized defederation list, which will be handled by following each other's censures on the fediseer, and all bans will be also common from the instances as well. So the flotilla decides person A is not welcome, they're not welcome in all our fleet!

The anarchist.nexus is hopefully just the first instance in our fleet (all kudos go to @fxomt@anarchist.nexus and @tenchiken@lemmy.dbzer0.com) and a proof-of-concept for the whole attempt. If this goes well, we may be able to extend to other software in the future.

As with everything novel, there's bound to be teething issues we're going to encounter, but we're commited to figuring it out with all of you.

And of course, go and join https://anarchist.nexus/ if that's more your speed!

A cyberpunk anarchist flotilla or dozen of boats sailing the rivers of the internet, surreal matrix-like visuals with beautiful fractal illustration
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Matrix db issues and temp Matrix chat room (lemmy.dbzer0.com)
submitted 1 year ago by to c/bloc@anarchist.nexus
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Update: Matrix homeserver is back up

cross-posted from: https://lemmy.dbzer0.com/post/52505171

Hi all,

As you are probably aware, Matrix is currently (slowly) trying to restore its massive database from backups.

In the meantime I've created a temp matrix room for folks to join.

https://matrix.to/#/#dbzer0:tchncs.de

If your matrix account is based on Matrix's homeserver (like mine is) you'll have to signup for a new matrix account on a working server. I just picked tchncs.de at random.

@db0@lemmy.dbzer0.com @_cryptagion@lemmy.dbzer0.com @_cryptagion@anarchist.nexus @fxomt@anarchist.nexus @fxomt@lemmy.dbzer0.com @RandomLegend@lemmy.dbzer0.com @RandomLegend@anarchist.nexus @YarrMatey@lemmy.dbzer0.com @d1tt0@lemmy.dbzer0.com

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How do you do fellow gays (anarchist.nexus)
submitted 1 year ago by to c/bloc@anarchist.nexus
6 comments fedilink