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.
This only serves to weaken the Threadiverse further; even moreso than Beehaw defederating from lemmy.world and sh.itjust.works.
If defederating from Zionists harms the Fediverse, then Feddit should fix their Zionist problem so they’re worth federating with
{insert Austrian flags on fire}
IMO it signifies the strength of the Threadiverse. The ability to freely choose who and where to connect with.
On redacttit you would be forced to share a space with places like T_D or truscum, and have their horrible takes influence others. Here we can defederate from the worst offenders yet stay in touch with others.
Yeah yeah we’ve heard this before from libertarians who came before you “defederation will destroy the fediverse”, “moderation is a violation of fReE sPEeCh”, and other such talking points yet we’re still here and will certainly be here for years to come, and still somehow the percentage of wrongful moderation is still insanely low compared to the amount of libs complaining about it.
Honestly defederation is a strength, not a weakness. It is a strength to stand up and say no. To refuse to tolerate abusive behavior. Which yes includes Zionists denying Genocide. It’s the reason why despite their best efforts, Lemmy hasn’t been taken over by right-wingers and transphobic trolls the way Reddit was a while ago. Oh they tried, many servers banned their accounts, and the servers they set up have been heavily defederated. People have said the Fediverse would split with a right-wing equivalent to what we have here, but it did not. Those ultimately died off or are dying now. Because the Fediverse is for real people who care about connection and community, and those people don’t care about either.