11mo ago

Lemmy world vegan community - hostile takeover

cross-posted from: https://lemmy.dbzer0.com/post/26218550

(posting to both communities)
A carnist lemmy world instance admin has stepped in and meatsplained to the mods while restoring comments that violated the community's rules. They deleted comments that they did not agree with, citing 'misinformation', and threatened to demod the mods if those comments were removed again. The comments were deleted and the admin was banned from the community as per violating the rules of the community, that was until they unbanned themselves (admin abuse) and unmodded two of the moderators because of "promoting harmfull actions against pets".
As far as it stands, if the lemmy world community wasn't already not a safe vegan place for you (it really wasn't) it most certainly isn't now as carnists (lemmy world instance admin) currently mod it.
I suggest any vegan who wants a safe and welcoming space to come and interact with vegantheoryclub.org. Sorry for any inconvienance that this may have caused. I am deeply upset at the admins actions today and don't condone them whatsoever.

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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.
- 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
- 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
https://slrpnk.net/c/vegan
vegantheoryclub.org is defederated from most of lemmy, but these communities are accessible and they are located on other instances.
@Beaver@lemmy.ca what communities do you prefer?
- vegantheoryclub.org is defederated from most of lemmy
  Seems like a red flag.
- I personally just visit the community !vegan@vegantheoryclub.org 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.
  
  I tried to sub, but I've been waiting at pending for months
- 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 humbly offer https://lemmy.ca/c/veganism
- 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.
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.
- Former LW team member here: Yeah all of the head admins fucking suck and many of them are cunts. I'm not vegan, but I am a state licensed and trained wildlife carer and while many people were lying about the bs with cats being able to be vegan etc, it isn't okay the way the sub was stolen by the admins. Peace, Ala/Zealous.
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...
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.
reason #50931 to not use lemmy.world for your account or your community.
Shame on the LemmyWorld admins storming into our place and silencing us. The actions in the modlog are fascist tactics.
- Well, liberals you need to scratch first.
  
  The centrist dilemma smh
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?
Wtf?
I suspect rooki is also the one who banned me for (anti-white?) racism from !PoliticalMemes@lemmy.world lol
"vegans are so annoying they always try to force their opinions on you"
- I guess we humans are just like that, huh. Nothing vegan or otherwise about it, just pure being an annoying human. I'm guessing Dunning-Kruger plays a big part here. People being at the peak of Mount Stupid are going to be the most vocal.
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.
  😘
Pinning this in light of the recent joke of a tos update.
You didn't even say which instscne is the issue in the post..
- A carnist lemmy world instance admin
  It's the lemmy world instance admin
  
  We need a link.
Which instance is the "fuck it do what you like" instance?
- Depends on what you like.
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 a shitty psychologist
  
  lol, lmao even
  
  Why, thank you.
- You’re victim blaming and using false equivalency fallacy in your argument.
- As someone who doesn’t know anything about the incident, is there any chance you can clarify things more?
- 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
- As a vegan let's just forget about accountability. ...what?

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