To be clear, we noticed soon after we became active that kolektiva was where a lot of the antiblack u.s. anarchists we've encountered elsewhere hang out.

THEN there was the whole IG move spearheaded by people like makegodgayagain who was frankly promoting the mayoverse in a blatantly uncritical way and told lots of ppl kolektiva was the place to go if you were rad which predictably brought a lot of new people there.

Not sure if any instances are choosing to defederate other than the one from OP but we haven't really pushed hard for any particular response, just called out shit when we saw it with the idea that Black people who signed up there could then decide for themselves if they wanted to move or not. But gonna put our past posts abt the instance here for reference:

https://eldritch.cafe/@romainelaprophetesse/105376568480135084
https://eldritch.cafe/@romainelaprophetesse/105404089464684089
https://eldritch.cafe/@romainelaprophetesse/105461508761794264

All that said it's VERY interesting that this corner of the mayoverse seems to be eager to defederate from annoying anarchists but not from annoying radlibs lol.

& we've found a lot more Black people on kolektiva (maybe due to the IG move?) than on some other instances we find equally irritating that haven't been subject to this kind of backlash, like monads or lgbt.io

So to summarize...if you're not Black & you're boosting this fine but in general you're not really any better just different.

@romainelaprophetesse hey guess where I'm at..... Lol

@romainelaprophetesse what are the annoying radlibs you're referring to?

@unsuspicious people who vote for democrats, nonblacks with BLM in the bio, nonblacks who have a lot of clout & use it to push annoying reformist bullshit

@romainelaprophetesse I meant, what instances are they on but thanks anyway 😅

@unsuspicious See the rest of the thread, named a couple, also mastodon.social (obviously) & anticapitalist.party but a list might be pointless tbh it's a systemic problem with this whole digital world not just with individual Bad Instances

@romainelaprophetesse thanks

@romainelaprophetesse i didn't know of issues with anticapitalist.party, i don't follow the local timeline that much. i'll keep an eye on it. maybe it's time to move out.

@cevado Did you ever see ppl there talk about CHOP/CHAZ in seattle?

@romainelaprophetesse no, but i'll look around. I interact more with ppl I follow directly. I've choose the instance just because it seems properly moderated and had a good CoC.

@cevado just curious

@romainelaprophetesse @unsuspicious@anarchism.space If it's any help (?) I've been trying to get people to listen about anticapitalistparty for years https://kitty.town/@GinnyMcQueen/1418644

@GinnyMcQueen .......how tf is that tweet "consistent w anticapitalism" lol

@romainelaprophetesse 🤷 🤷 🤷

@romainelaprophetesse thank you for these. I've missed a lot of the shit coming from kolektiva.

@schrodingers_cat yah that instance exploded in popularity. Had never really seen them around before the influx of new users. Been following @romainelaprophetesse 's posts and it has been illuminating.

@romainelaprophetesse thank you for sharing these.

I had a vague memory of some of it, but my mind is foggy at the best of times.

@romainelaprophetesse kolektiva appears to have dealt with the "bludger" account now :)

@pfx noisemaking often works!

@seeyoutmrw Please keep us updated on how that goes!!

@bologknees @romainelaprophetesse if you find a new instance you can import your follow list and mark your old account as “moved”. That way people can find you on your new instance.

If you had wanted to, you’d be more than welcome at Queer Garden