If you are reading about vegan stuff, why is it important that people from a us politicalmemes community can come in and tell you you’re stupid?

Why is total federation necessary? vtc feds with many instances including some large ones like hexbear, dbzero, ml, and ee.

Is it praxis to blow up lemmy.world to decentralise the 'verse?

No it can’t, you obviously misunderstand this community. Of course, I don’t expect carnists to have basic cognitive skills or they’d be vegan.

consumption 🤮

In medicine there is a concept called “implied consent”. Suppose you come across a human who is dying, they are not able to say that they would like you to save their life. You are assumed to have consent to try, assuming they have specifically not refused consent (e.g. through an advanced care directive) because there is the implication that they would prefer to live than die.

There is not really a good reason to apply this concept only to humans. For example, if you saw a train bearing down on an oblivious wombat moving the wombat off the tracks (or scaring them off or whatever) is obviously something you should try, despite generally having moral reservations about interfering in their life, because wombats generally aren’t trying to commit suicide.

We can assume most abandoned animals that were formerly pets (or in entertainment industries or whatever) would like to go on living given that they continue to try staying alive. Although approaching that as ownership is definitely non-vegan, like if you take one into your life with a mindset that you can just stop caring for them or sideline their needs when inconvenient that is not vegan.

They don’t. Pets aren’t vegan.

Adopting non-human animals that would otherwise be killed for lack of facilities to care for them is basically the only way a vegan can end up with individual custody. Even then, it’s harm reduction and not ideal.

Sanctuaries with professional full-time staff are better, but there are mass graves everywhere full of non-humans that there were no spots in a sanctuary for.

Good luck!

You will probably need to sticky a post in each thread automatically as very few people read the sidebar. You also need to be prepared for deliberate trolls.

I had wondered about the utility of a bot that automatically acts on reports from a list of manually selected good users, which moderators review the actions of as reports whenever they’re around. It’s a fair bit of effort to set something like that up as a system and maintain it, but if mods aren’t around dunk-cycles can tank productive discussions in a few minutes.

Reports also don’t federate properly btw, less an issue for you but anyone you invite who isn’t using a .world account won’t ?always? see them.

That level of reading comprehension absolutely tracks with some of the shit I’ve seen written about us lately.

Do what thou wilt shall be the whole of the Law

I don’t run vtc, and I think Hamid is probably more likely to eat his own teeth than refederate.

DBzero is federated, and a widely federated instance. The admin has a sense of humour at least so you could do worse than signing up there if you want to see world stuff.