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Why yes, we do tolerate people badmouthing Ada, dessalines, nutomic, and even our own admins. Hell I've personally tolerated dozens of angry hexbears trying to bully myself in my own thread in my own comm. We do indeed walk the walk.
There's no "tribalism" here, no matter how much you keep repeating it. In all honestly it reads to me you're more upset people are not sufficiently polite in disagreement. Anarchists can and will be rude, especially towards people like PJ routinely but politely calling them "nazis" for not engaging in the electoralism farce. Nobody is under any onus to remain polite to spare your feelings, nor does this make is a "tribe" because we tend to attract anarchists who feel the same way about liberals.
Fuck I don't even know at this point what your problem even is, that we attract like-minded people in our instance? We don't want to be lemmy.world for a reason and if you want that, well lemmy.world already exists.
Seriously, We're not going to go around policing people for rudeness. This is absurd and will not work whatsoever.
Clearly, it's not "obvious" at all. Again, we anarchists tend to prefer democracy over dictatorship.
You'd prefer that one person decide by fiat what's OK or not? I don't know about you but I find democracy superior to dictatorship, even when nominally "benevolent" .
Anyone solid in our instance can request an admin recall with a vote
We've never banned people because they reported mod abuse from our own team. If people have been instance banned we would even allow others to open a yptb post on their behalf and I would personally even allow an alt.
This is not idle talk either, we've done this already.
So you keep saying. I don't just think that, I know that. And given that it's very easy for people to call us out on it officially and yet nobody seems to want to, I'm fairly confident we've taken the right decision. Unlike other instances, we welcome criticism of admin actions as we don't think we're infallible.
Why, yes s it is bad faith to misrepresent the cause of the mod action and then double down on it.
In any case, feel free to open a yptb post if you're do certain our cause was trivial.
I've self reflected and discovered I've done nothing wrong
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Not sure which thread you mean, but If you think people expressing their low opinions about someone is "bullying", then, well you haven't experienced bullying. And also, what the hell do you expect of dbzer0 admins to do about people expressing such opinions? You want us to go around protecting the people you like from public opinion? Like, this is a legit absurd argument path.
Those aren't the only two options lol. I'm just saying that "Our users/tribe love that we always take the side of our users/tribe no matter the facts of the situation!"
It's easy to look right when fighting against strawmen.
People say this stuff and then claim that we're doing bad faith takes. Go figure.
Also TIL that each of the Entropy Titan's "faces" maintains its own conditions.
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Inside the scrappy network of volunteers protecting their neighbors from ICE
(www.motherjones.com)
Note, I'm neither American, nor heavily in that scene. I'm merely signal boosting what I feel is important information countering lib propaganda.
'Allo m@tes, for some inexplicable reason we're all still here after yet another year in this fucked up world, so I thought it would be a good time to recap what we've done as it's been a fairly busy year for our growth and maturity.
2024 Notable Events
2024 Canvas
Soon after our new year celebration, the 2024 canvas happened and we had fun. I blogged a bit about that event here.
Apropos the 2025 Canvas is almost upon us, so start making some plans!
Mlmym retired and Tesseract (re-)added
We had to retire our mlmym (i.e. old.reddit) interface as it was abandoned and was running into issues. Interestingly, the lemmy.world crowd seems to have started maintaining it somewhat on their own, so maybe we'll re-add it in the future.
At the same time we've redeployed Tesseract and it's quickly become on my favourite frontends.
Radical Instance Democracy
Threativore, the core admin tool I've developed to support our instance has grown with leaps and bounds. Through it. we implemented some radical and unique approaches to our instance governance as well as some cool features like user flair, vouching, flagging systems, welcome messages and more.
We've already used the voting system to create mandates on how to handle our instance and it certainly helps the crew know that the direction we sail is a welcomed one. Some examples:
- Banning Xitter links - Passed
- Sanctioning off-topic comments - Passed
- Reversing an instance ban - Failed
So many new subscribers!
This years we're had multiple large join waves
We're nowhere close to the lemmy.world of course, but last I checked, we're the 5th largest based on Monthly Active Users, and soon to be 4th after lemm.ee shuts down, which I think is impressive for the instance with the a difficult domain to remember, a 2 page application form, and and some spicy takes on politics. 😅
Benevolent Poison
We recently added more countermeasures for the asocial corporate bots swarming the internet, by onboarding Iocaine among other countermeasures. Fun news. The GPTBot is the most greedy, delving 300-page deep in garbage.
Accessibility and Translations
We added the rblind themes instance-wide before it was cool 
, and now of course everyone who upgrades to 0.19.12 also has them.
At the same time, we added Korean, Greek and Spanish translations to our application form and golden rules which you can see and improve in our wiki.
Staff
We've added 2 new moderators @[email protected] and @[email protected] and one new sysadmin @[email protected] to our instance who have already proved their weight in doubloons! Things are scaling up nicely!
Matrix
Our real-time matrix channels have been growing busier in later months and it's great to see all you weirdos interact! For the rest of you, what are you waiting for?
Membership
I know you've all been waiting for it, so here's another breakdown of our membership alignments as of this date
Analysis Results:
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Historical Pirate: 757 (7.9%)
Digital Pirate: 2095 (21.9%)
Pirate Tools: 1212 (12.7%)
Fictional Character: 831 (8.7%)
FOSS advocate: 2415 (25.2%)
Free Software: 1286 (13.4%)
Anarchist: 1304 (13.6%)
ASD: 227 (2.4%)
ADHD: 509 (5.3%)
Other: 342 (3.6%)
Unparseable: 0 (0.0%)
Total Answers Analyzed: 9572
Answers matching multiple categories: 1744
Top Mentions per Category:
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Historical Pirate: Blackbeard (347), Anne Bonny (55), Zheng Yi Sao (50)
Digital Pirate: Fitgirl (344), Aaron Swartz (291), The Pirate Bay (162)
Pirate Tools: Genp (679), BitTorrent (120), *Arrs (93)
Fictional Character: Captain Jack Sparrow (345), One Piece (120), Dread Pirate Roberts (71)
FOSS advocate: Linus Torvalds (721), Richard Stallman (596), Louis Rossmann (177)
Free Software: Lemmy (420), Linux (211), VLC (73)
Anarchist: Emma Goldman (154), Kropotkin (113), Chomsky (98)
Other: Anonymous (47), Elon Musk (31), O'Reilly (28)
Notable here is GenP shooting up the charts with the migration of their reddit comm, even though we've been explicitly rejecting "GenP" applications for a while, since those lazy bastards just started sharing an application answer to copy-paste even though we asked them not to do that 
Funding
M@tes are clearly incredible people which is shown by how well they're taking care of their social third place. Not only have we reach our objective for the first half of 2025, but you've almost completely funded the rest of 2025 itself!
All this ensures there's no stress whatsoever about keeping the lights on. But since we sail in uncharted waters, it's good to have a little bit saved in our treasure hoard 
in case of...complications, so keep it up!
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| Ko-fi | Liberapay |
Finally, I want to extend my warmest thanks to everyone who make this possible, from the staff who put their time and mental health on the line, to the donators who help sustain this endeavor, to all the commenters and voting lurkers, who keep providing the weird content we all thrive on!
On a personal note, I'm not here to build a social media empire, which is why I'm not starting a ton of dbzer0-branded social media services. I feel that putting all my efforts into one very well run instance will go further and will keep the people satisfied. Myself I'm using lemmy constantly as I'm a big believer in "dogfooding", which is why I keep adding new tweaks and features via tools like the threativore and fediseer. Point is: I don't plan to stop so long as you're all staying around to make lemmy interesting to me, so thanks for being part of the same community. I'm proud to call this my home and all of you my m@tes!
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You might think that Star Trek is a show about exploration, about science, about morality, about what humanity is capable of if we truly embrace the best of ourselves
(lemmy.dbzer0.com)
That is a misconception! Star Trek is, in fact, a show about the weirdest chairs you've ever seen.
Personal Note: Why oh why can't we have better microblogging interaction and I have to keep making the crossposts manually 🥲
So your suggest is that I just act by fiat against the other mods?
I don't know mate, I feel like your issues would be resolved if you didn't go in random threads and start badmouthing our instance as a whole and then complain the our users try to defend it.