I tend to browse /All and by New on Lemmy. I went to respond on a thread on !vegan@lemmy.world to thank someone for a recipe that looked good, and found out I had been banned.
Odd, considering I hadn’t posted to that sub at any point in the past. I checked the modlog to find that “Mod” had banned a bunch of people citing “Rule 5.”
Their Rule 5 states: Bad-faith carnist rhetoric & anti-veganism are not allowed, as this is not a space to debate the merits of veganism. Anyone is welcome here, however, and so good-faith efforts to ask questions about veganism may be given their own weekly stickied post in the future (see current stickied discussion).
I (and hundreds of others) seemingly broke rule 5 of this community without ever posting there. What is going on?
And my apologies if this isn’t the place for this, but I had no idea where else to post the question.
When you’re not a vegan and argue against veganism online and the vegans don’t want to let you into a vegan space
The last time I spoke about veganism whatsoever was over 7 months ago.
Not to mention that it was specifically in a debate thread dedicated to discussing veganism, nor was I overly negative.
Was this intended to be a strawman of some kind?
So, to be clear, you’re saying that you are not a vegan and you did argue against veganism, and are upset that you got kicked from a vegan space, but at the same time, saying that you’re not a vegan and argued against veganism and are upset that you got kicked from a vegan space is a “strawman,” somehow.
Are you strawmanning yourself? Wtf are you talking about?
For full clarity of what occurred (and not that my diet is any of your concern, but since you brought it up):
- I am not vegan, but have been greatly reducing my meat intake and have been toying with going vegetarian.
- I was kicked from a vegan Community I have never posted in and was about to do for the first time to thank someone for something I found interesting.
- I do not know why I was kicked from a vegan Community. The reason was cited as a rule that I did not violate. I found hundreds of other bans while looking for why I was banned.
- I did not argue against veganism. 7 months ago, I did argue in favour of plants as plants are awesome. This should be irrelevant to what occurred with these bans.
- I did all discussion in a single thread specifically created to discuss veganism in a discussion Community on a completely different instance.
- The Strawman comment is you claiming I’m somehow screaming “1984” because of the ban. I am not.
- You are being needlessly combative and creating arguments based on assumption. That is the definition of a strawman.
- My original post here was made out of confusion, not malice.
Is that enough for you to parse what has occurred, or would you care to restate everything poorly and in bad faith once again?
I’m so tired of hearing about this community. They should change their name to ShittyAntiCarnivoreMemes and move to .ml.
Mods abusing power, is just a normal day on social media. Power always corrupts.
I’m also banned because I believe cats cannot be healthy vegans.
On the instance lemmy.world
The knickers of an admin had curled.
Suggestions of a vegan cat:
Red faced with ears of steam
He banned their moderation team.
Over something dramatic like that.An admin decree was made:
A repeat was forbade.
“But that wasn’t enough,”
Some moderators said with a huff.
Not wanting to be persecuted,
By plebians with vegan-hate rooted
They would make the place tamer
By turning it into an echo chamber
Do you want to build an echo chamber? This is how you build an echo chamber.
(I find this entirely unsurprising. I think they do want to build an echo chamber.)
Yeah.
I left beehaw because they seem determined to build a echo chamber too
A minority literally accused of me of wanting to kill all of them simply because I only half agreed with a post.
And then a admin overlooked that, and accused me of causing a fight in a “safe space” which seems to be just another term for echo chamber
I have friends from that minority 😂
