Here’s a dbzer0 admin being super condescending about how important it is not to vote

OK...sort of a glaring problem - the source you're citing doesn't actually back up the claim you made.

you said, emphasis added:

Mostly what I am criticizing here is this whole strategy of just not voting, and hoping that that alone and nothing else

and then, the top comment in the thread you linked:

Can you outline those things that actually matter, that you are doing?

Direct action for mutual aid. Anarchism. I’m helping my fellow humans outside of the capitalist system with my every waking moment that is not dedicated to survival.

every time I've seen a "don't vote" argument put forward seriously - no one actually says what you're claiming of "don't vote, and don't do anything else".

voting happens one day out of the year, and not even every year. even if you count primaries and one-off special elections you're still only looking at a handful of days (here in WA they have a very stupid fondness for having both a February special election and an April special election, usually for ballot initiatives they want low turnout for)

so the actual non-strawman argument goes, that the impact of voting once every 2-4 years is minuscule, compared to the impact it's possible to have on the other 364 days of the year, by getting engaged in things outside electoral politics, with mutual aid being the most well-known example.

but anyway, that user gets pressed for examples of what they actually do, and they say they do FOSS stuff. and you're assuming that's all they do. which, maybe it is. but Lemmy posts are not depositions - that user isn't sworn to tell the truth, the whole truth and nothing but the truth. besides FOSS shit, maybe they crochet socks for homeless people. maybe they sabotage oil pipelines. maybe they crochet socks for oil pipeline saboteurs.

I have some friends who are anarchists, or on the anarchist spectrum. every single one of them has very good opsec. there is a strong cultural norm of "don't brag about shit online".

I've done shit in the past that I will never post details about online. or, maybe I haven't, maybe I'm just saying that hypothetically to prove a point. (if a lawyer or fed is reading this, I absolutely have not, I am 100% a couch potato and my political beliefs never spill out into the real world, I have never taken any overt acts in furtherance of anything that may or may not have been a criminal act in that jurisdiction at that time)

those opsec-minded friends would probably chide me even for posting the joking paragraph above. people have gone to jail because they got goaded into forum arguments that started with "you're just a keyboard warrior, you don't do anything in the real world" and then they bragged about circumstantial details that seemed anonymized enough that it'd be safe to post them online.

so if you see someone online saying "I don't vote", and they don't mention anything else they do that's politically involved...don't assume that means they don't do anything. maybe they just have good opsec.

but for the sake of argument, let's say that user you linked to truly doesn't vote, and doesn't do anything political other than running some Lemmy servers. so what?

like, yeah, it'd be good if they voted, and it'd be good if they joined their local Food Not Bombs chapter or whatever. but you going on Lemmy and trying to scold them into voting is never gonna persuade them.

in general, the thing I wish more centrist Democrats learned was scolding doesn't work...you can try to scold someone into voting, but you can never scold someone into being excited about voting. excitement means they tell their friends, they put up yard signs and bumper stickers, they volunteer for the campaign, they stand in line to vote even if it takes 8 hours because of voter suppression, etc.

Here’s a huge thread with a bunch of people weighing in, on the topic of whether or not “electoralism” should be permitted on a political post in an anarchism forum. Pretty much all the Lemmy mods and admins involved opined that it should not.

I'm not familiar with that corner of Lemmy....but it looks like you went into a sublemmy that is explicitly for anarchists to talk with other anarchists, tried to pick a argument with them, got banned, and then made a post on a different sublemmy that is exclusively for "I want to complain about getting banned from a sublemmy"

and IDK man...honestly it seems like you're salty about getting banned and are holding a collective grudge against every anarchist on Lemmy?

So yes, it’s common on Lemmy to see people advocate for not voting and that being the extent of your involvement with the official political process.

so as i've said, I don't think the "that being the extent of your involvement" part holds up...but also, remember that Lemmy is a tiny slice of the internet, and the two examples you linked to are from anarchism forums on Lemmy, which are going to be a tiny slice of a tiny slice. that first thread you linked has 24 upvotes and 12 downvotes, showing that it's just an incredibly small niche, but also that it's somewhat controversial even among Lemmy anarchists.

usually, when we talk about protest votes, the concern is there being so many protest votes that it swings the election. and like...anarchists on Lemmy are simply never going to be numerous enough to matter.