It is a system where you share help, you give it and you receive it : one grows food, one builds houses and at the end of a day, everyone get a house with food.
This is exactly the problem I was highlighting. It's nice to construct the idea where people get along but how do you incentivize them to actually do that without using coercive methods? "We can make this work if everyone just gets along" is just another tautology. Unsurprisingly, any system will work if all people would just cooperate.
Not to even get to the general logistical difficulties with deciding how many carrots one should get for building a house, and if that's fair. And the free rider problem.
If people don’t play nice, either it’s a few people and that’s no big deal, either it’s a lot and they’re defederating and that’s a valid possibility, anarchist systems are precisely adaptable.
And what if the people who disagree decide to subjugate (and possibly erase) the anarchist system? What if (as is likely) people decide that they want is personal power and authority over others?
It does not mean that anarchy fails by itself, it means that it fails when a state destroys it,
It fails internally due to it's fragility in the face of corruption. And when scaled, it would have to compete with anyone who decides that might makes right (by any means necessary). Pure, non-coercive anarchism inherently cannot withstand an attack from anyone who is willing to be coercive in order to gain power.
Also i don’t really understand what is the big deal with db0 defederation.
(Also to @ageedizzle@piefed.ca)
They can defederate all they like. The problem is in the way the "democratic" vote was presented. Their method of conducting the vote (with very clear bias) shows that the Admins had a strong opinion on what the correct result of the vote should be. This is abuse of power - which should not exist in an actual Anarchist setting. The exact same driving forces can be copied and pasted to other scenarios: the organizing body of an Anarchist community has a Strong Opinion about a matter, and they put the matter to vote "democratically", but they use extremely loaded rhetoric to push their own agenda so that people vote the way they want. It's consent manufacturing, and thus, not Anarchism. I highly recommend reading Animal Farm.
And to be clear: I'm fine with db0 admins doing whatever they like, but calling it an "Anarchist" instance is then misleading. It's rather just another informal, progressive oligarchy where the appearance of democracy is used to mask centralized platform governance. Anarchism failed, because the moment they created that farce of a vote, they stopped being anarchists and became authoritarians. Anarchist ideals did not do what they needed to do for the db0 admins to get the results they wanted.