No Stupid Questions

I'm not misrepresenting anything. You declare that by the fact that we have a red A next to our name, it gives us some massive boost in pushing our ideas through, even through democratic decision making, which if you knew anything about real-life anarchists, and particularly the neurodivergent sort we go to great lengths to attract, you'd know that people in position of undesired authority (even thouse imposed by the software) are given even more scrutiny than most. The fact that our instance community went with the vote (which as others mentioned, was raised by a member of the instance, not the admin team) goes to show how overwhelmingly desired the defederation was. Despite all your "But you lead these sheeple by the nose" degrading of the intellect of our members.

You "pulled out some choice morsels" from modlogs to illustrate your point

Which goes to show that you're merely upset the vote didn't go the way you wanted. If this was merely "some choice morsels" I guarantee our comm would have unearthed the rest and rubbed them in our faces.

But anarchism is not a set of rules to be obeyed; it is a method of self-organization. You cannot have "self-organization" if the "self" does not have the tools (education/critical thinking) to organize. By claiming education isn't necessary, the you're essentially saying: "You don't need to understand the system, you just need to do what "WE" ("the authority that's totes not an authority") call "mutual aid" and vote the way we set up the ballot." This is Vanguardism, not Anarchism.

Not what I'm saying at all. When I say we need no education, I mean one does not need to read infinite amount of theory before engaging in anarchism, like Marxist-Leninist vanguardists claim for their own movement. People can just do anarchism, and its praxis radicalizes them and invites more education. You should try to be more charitable instead of superficially trying to gotcha people. In our case, indeed we self-organize around anarchist principles, and one of those principles is the right of association (where people choose to associate with other members of our instance and not to associate with zionists), and the right of consensus making through democratic means.

Also, in the spirit of mutual aid, would it not be in your best interest to try your best to educate the people in your community and empower them to think for themselves?

We already do that. But we're not going to avoid all democratic decision making until everyone is "enlightened" or some whatever shite you're positing.

You can jump up and down all you want about how we "abandoned the ideals of anarchism", but the mere dint of the matter that actual anarchists choose to voluntarily continue associating with us (and not raise a shitstorm), rather than the armchair theorist with the most superficial understanding of the theory (like you), is all the proof we need we're going in the right direction.

Anarchism needs people to cooperate, yet lacks functional power to make cooperation to happen and so, people such as yourself will use some type of coercion (authority) to force cooperation the way they (the authority) wants.

You've yet to point out any form of coercion except your pet definition of "Well, you're so much more charismatic by being an admin, you led everyone by the nose" which flies in the face of reality.

The voting process was started not by an admin but a user.

You are 100% misrepresenting what happened with the communities vote to push your biased narrative that it was undemocratic.

And the staff are allowed to have their own opinions. They do not need to be stoic bastions of neutrality, they’re members of the site and get to argue their position as much as anyone else.

Matter of fact is the majority of the community voted in favour of defederation, and not one user has proposed a vote for refederation.

You may not like the result, but it was a 100% fair and open form of governance.