This ^

What I don’t understand is how could a mod from a community have authority on someone on another community, let alone on an empty community? Like why would authority matter if no one is your subject?And I understand that making an instance is hard an not for everyone, but my hope is that it becomes easier and easier as time goes on.

If I remember, Lemmy is working on making sure comments and post history is exportable if you want to move instances. Having a backup of your account would definitely give even more power to the user IMO.

I never wanted to claim that the fediverse is like nostr. I just don’t consider it to be authoritarian because of the first paragraph.

I should’ve asked the question earlier. Thank you so much!

Chances are they already did

I think it should be inescapable. At least, the consequences from it should. The modlog is still available, and there is nothing that stops you from creating your own community. If we take the Ohio analogy tho, claiming yourself to be a sovereign citizen won’t stop the police from applying their authority on you. They use violence in order to apply it as well. In Lemmy, creating your community in an instance may not stop an admin, but will stop a moderator. A step further to that would be making your own instance, and I know it’s not perfect, but it’s already way more power to the users and less to the moderators.

I see it more as someone kicking you out of a group. You can ask the others if they disagree and want to form another group with you. If the others agree, they can leave the group, and if not, they’ll stay because they agree with the decision. It’s not a perfect model, but gives way more agency to the user than it does to the moderators/admins. For example, on reddit, if you were banned from a community, you could make your own, but if you were banned from the site, then not much could’ve been done. People also don’t agree with the moderation on ml, so they moved on to .world, db0 or lemm.ee. So far, it works.

I would advise against using the argument of it being “just words”, as it removes the intention behind your words, and can lead to some more right wing talking points (not that you are right wing).

But what I’m trying to point out is that this one person does not have authority over anyone due to the nature of the fediverse. If they did, your post right here would be gone.

If the users that are in the community of the moderator didn’t like how they managed things, they could make their own community. And if they didn’t like that the instance let the community exist for whatever reason, they can change for a better instance. Admittedly it’s hard to do so, but it’s a pretty good model.

They can’t stop users from making their own solar punk meme community.

I’m not really talking about what Kropotkin said. I’m not sure if you’re being sarcastic here.

Also literally the first line of your Wikipedia article:

Mutualism is an anarchist school of thought and anti-capitalist market socialist economic theory

It is key. Anarchist theory is supposed to prove that hierarchy is not necessary. Proving that a group of people can manage themselves without one is the point.

I also added in the last sentence in order to include this. Multual aid is a leftist theory. Maybe the misunderstanding stems from this, as I didn’t intend it to mean “that’s the only point of anarchy”, so my bad. I still think it is important though.

Anarchy is not equal to “no rules”. That’s anti-anarchy propaganda.

Lemmy in itself is anarchist because each community is allowed to have its own set of rules, and each instances as well.

The point of anarchy is that if you and a group of other people disagree with how someone is handling things, you can exclude them from your group. Of course, this is all in the context of leftist and communist ideologies.

There are a lot of Lemmy instances (or lemmies) out there. I don’t even know how many my self 😅.

Each instances are characterized by their set of rules and moderation styles. You can see them through join-lemmy.org/instances as well as their description. To see a user’s instance, just look at the domain after their username and the @.

Usually each instances can decide if they want to be able to interact with users and communities from a certain instance. That’s called being federated.

Sometimes tho they don’t think an instance’s userbase or community follows their rules, so they can decide to cut all interactions with them. That’s called being defederated.

The instance you are on, lemmy.world, is ironically, very US centered, and is the most popular instance. It’s defederated from hexbear.net and lemmygrad.ml, so you will never see posts from them on lemmy.world unless it’s a screenshot or something.

Since I’m on lemmy.ml tho, I can see posts from lemmy.world, hexbear and lemmygrad.

The benifit of this is that each instance can curate their experience how they see fit. If you think a moderator is being too trigger-happy on an instance, or you don’t agree on how lenient they are (or whatever other reason), you can migrate to another instance. So let’s say you want to go to lemmy.ml (which I highly doubt you would, but just an example), you go into your account settings, export your data, create your lemmy.ml account and import it. Currently it doesn’t support importing comments, but the devs are working on it.

I’m not the best at explaining things, but I’m sure [email protected] could help.

Leftists on lemmygrad and hexbear don’t support Kamala. You’re on lemmy.world tho so I don’t blame you for not knowing.

Splatoon. The design, the music, the art, the gameplay and the idea was executed so well.

Read a lot, cite sources and explain thouroughly what you think.

I mostly use the last method. Basically, you want to make sure that the other person understands fully what you mean. You can use examples and anecdotes as well.

Training yourself in philosophy also helps, as it makes sure you argument well what you want to say.

Eehh I kinda disagree. Autism is better to describe my sensory issues and my inability to correctly verbalize what I mean, as well as trouble with facial expressions.

The disorder part is there not only because it makes it harder to interact with people, but because of different information processing (natural or societal). Kinda like how epilepsy is also technically because of difference in information processing.

The conflict isn’t just because neurotypicals made the rules. It’s because they have an easier time forming a set of rules and following them collectively (hence the etymology of the word autism). Different cultures have different rules, and neurotypicals can adjust well. Some people may have subteler difficulties, but even then, it never becomes dehabiliting to a certain point, that point being what is the difference between someone with autism and someone without.

Yeah this is a great guide, especially for clothing.

YEEEEAAAAAAAH 🥳

Heh, democratic

Welcome! Don’t feel shy to check out other instances than .ml or .world. Like dbzero, solarpunk and many more.

“It’s so over” or “joever”. Because yeah, it has never been so joever.

Also fanum taxing. It’s just funny sounding and I can’t figure out what it means.

1. You’re replying to someone from db0

2. Lemmy.ml is not the only place that believes the US isn’t a democracy.

3. The US is an oligarchy. It’s one of the things agreed by philosophers, including my teacher. The current controversy in the left surrounding the elections obviously proves this point.