Due to a (now former) admin of the instance anarchist.nexus calling for a member of our team, as well as anyone else they call a zionist, to be murdered, the instance has been defederated.
We’re currently discussing how we will proceed with this situation and whether it will affect lemmy.dbzer0.com, which is mostly run by the same admin team, notably excluding the person who used to be on the anarchist.nexus admin team.
We will share further updates once we have them.
Update 2026-04-22 23:25 UTC: anarchist.nexus federation has been reactivated.
We are still discussing this matter, but there is currently no point in keeping anarchist.nexus defederated while lemmy.dbzer0.com is federated.
This is honestly pathetic. If the admins want to have an argument at least leave everyone else out of it. Defederation should be an absolute last resort not your first port of call when someone disagrees with you
Defederating violent antisemites is 100% resonable. You cannot call for violence against people for perceived Zionism. Instance admins included.
Antizionism is not antisemitism and never will be.
So ban that user, you don’t need to defederate an entire instance over it even if they are an admin (unless they use their admin privileges to circumvent the ban). And they’re not even an admin anymore
dbzer0 admin policy supports and encouages this behavior. That is why they must be defederated. Their instance policy promotes antisemitic violence.
Lemmy.org is a trolls instance, with unvetted user signups. You are obviously a fake account pushing a single agenda, and should be banned.
I’m not convinced that’s true
Removed by mod
100%
It’s always admin drama that leads to this. Look at any of the major instance defederations and it is always a disagreement that isn’t resolved because the egos of the admins involved almost immediately turn the conversation into ‘agree with me or else’ instead of any kind of real dialog.
In this case, the person calling for murder in their username was removed as an admin so the issue seems resolved.
Well, in this case it seems really out of place to defederate. But otherwise i like to think that defederation is something that you could use more than in last resort : yes it breaks the network, but the network should also work as broken, that’s one of the strenght of federation to me. I’m not a technical person and still a newbie, so i might be missing important bits, don’t hesitate to correct me if this is the case, but i felt like sharing another point of view.