I was removed for stating that synthetic taurine is a thing which is used in food all the time and that a whole food plant based diet would kill a cat. according to the admin this is promoting dangerous actions.
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- You Will Never Look at Your Life in the Same Way Again
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It's the vegans that are the animal abusers!
What the actual fuck. Do they not even know that Monster Energy™ has vegan taurine? How else do they think vegans get their 166mg of caffeine per serving? 🙄
Anyways...
So, is this the instance mod overriding the community mods? Guess it's time to give up on LW. It really has become the cesspit of Lemmy.
That was Lemmy.ml originally. Sounds like world is just as bad
I’m sorry, you were removed for recommending against a plant-based diet for cats by a non-vegan? I’m not sure I understand the angle here.
No I was unremoving comments of someone explaining how a plant based diet can be safe, who also acknowledged that a whole food plant based diet would be lethal. In explaining why I was I also acknowledging that a whole food plant based diet would be lethal.
Cats can survive on a plant based diet, but only one carefully formulated and processed with additional supplements. If you try to keep mr fluffypaws alive on carrots and lentils he will die.
I point out this acknowledgement as it flies in the face of the alleged action of promoting harm to animals. You can check the modlog for the full hilarity /shrug
Okay, that’s at least more consistent. Still bullshit, but it’s not as confusing.
It's also morally ambiguous to force an animal into a diet they have no understanding of.
Only to the same extent as all pet keeping decisions. Like people breed pets, steralise them, make decisions about where they can and what they can do, decide what degree of medical care they get and so on. Any food is forced /shrug
This is why veganism needs to become a protected belief in every country of the world.
I'm not vegan but I respect people for wanting a space to discuss.
https://sh.itjust.works/c/veganrecipes
vegantheoryclub.org is defederated from most of lemmy, but these communities are accessible and they are located on other instances.
@[email protected] what communities do you prefer?
vegantheoryclub.org is defederated from most of lemmy
Seems like a red flag.
I personally just visit the community [email protected] since it is hosted and ran completely by vegans.
I would recommend the instances of VeganTheoryClub and Lemmy.vg to experience the vegan subculture without censorship.
Theres also hexbear.net/c/vegan and hexbear.net/c/food, in fact the whole instance has a vegan-as-the-norm mindset even if not everyone is vegan.
Maybe I'm misunderstanding something but when I go to the instance list on lemmy.world it lists vegantheoryclub.org as being a linked instance. For good measure I also made sure that it wasn't on the blocked instances list. But when I try to view any community that exists on vegantheoryclub.org from lemmy.world it gives an error as if the entire instance is blocked.
If an instance is defederated it would show up on the blocked instance list right? That's literally what that is a lost of is it not? And if so was vegantheoryclub very recently defederated and the list just hasn't been updated or something?
To give more context the Instance Vegan Theory Club defederated from Lemmy World since there were too many troll comments originating from there.
It only shows up as blocked if the instance is actively blocking it. VeganTheoryClub blocks LemmyWorld, but not the other way around and once an instance blocks another, traffic will not go through in either directions.
I read the mod log regularly. I lol'd pretty hard when I saw the great Rooki himself get banned that day. Extremely not surprised to see that this has happened, it is typical LW admin behavior.
Speaking as a vegan, safe spaces are boring echo chambers. Let's stop pretending that this thrift shop link depository is some relevant real world institution. Someone pays for the bandwidth and those guys can be as hitler as they like towards the rest. Speaking as a psychologist (real talk), my advice is stop paying attention to who removed what and why, for your own good. It's a pile of shit, you shat some, someone else shat their own and they removed yours. It's all just shit anyway.
I'm not gonna lose sleep but people should know how the world admins behave and use that info when deciding where to set up their 'thrift shop link depositories'
You’re victim blaming and using false equivalency fallacy in your argument.
Steak lover here, and I promise you that the opposite type of communities are also pretty boring. Get any group of veg(etari)anism haters together, and eventually someone will mention the lawnmower joke as if they thought of it themselves. Maybe I smiled a bit when I first heard it as a tween some 30 years ago, but it's not exactly comedy gold.
What
It basically boils down to "Do vegetarians get hungry when they notice the scent of a freshly mowed lawn? Durrrr". Like I said, not exactly comedy gold, but it routinely shows up whenever a group starts to rip on vegetarians for no particular reason.
That was not my point of confusion.
I agree and am happy that you find these "communities of often boring cis-males with a poor sense of humour and probably a background of being bullies to feel better than others" bad.
But introducing oneself as a "steak lover" in a vegan community is still extremely edgy. Not like we dont like steak, but we prioritize being humane and not fucking up the environment.
So yeah, steak lovers can fuck off, while as a human you are welcome here.
I hope you get what I mean.
Damn, now I need to manually migrate :/
Yes, we have vegan cookies (and also vegan pizza upon your arrival)
It's a cool place and you're a cool dude. You'll fit in
Vegans need to come together.
Soon...
Shame on the LemmyWorld admins storming into our place and silencing us. The actions in the modlog are fascist tactics.
reason #50931 to not use lemmy.world for your account or your community.
My thanks to the vegan mods of this community fighting to maintain its integrity ✊
Cheers, being a mod sucks. It's mostly reading vitriol, removing it, and then having creeps show up in your messages with vague threats or claims about how you're a megalomaniac.
So why is Rooki not banned yet? Who is the boss here?
Admin supersedes moderator in this context.
I mean, the owner and other admins of the instance should stop any rogue admins right?
They should review their behaviour and then hold them accountable. We need objective admins who listen to both sides to a story not just the one they agree with the most.
Wtf?
"vegans are so annoying they always try to force their opinions on you"
Came for the recipes. Stayed for the wrestling match (pops another handful of vegan buttered popcorn into mouth).
vegan buttered popcorn
lmao
This is the "I use Arch btw" of the vegan world. Always have to insert their veganism into everything.
😘