this post was submitted on 10 Jan 2025
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Ye Power Trippin' Bastards

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This is a community in the spirit of "Am I The Asshole" where people can post their own bans from lemmy or reddit or whatever and get some feedback from others whether the ban was justified or not.

Sometimes one just wants to be able to challenge the arguments some mod made and this could be the place for that.

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submitted 1 day ago* (last edited 1 day ago) by [email protected] to c/[email protected]
 

Vegans being banned and comments being deleted from [email protected] for being fake vegans.

From my perspective, the comments were in no way insulting and just part of completely normal interaction. If this decision reflects the general opinion of the mod team, then from my perspective, the biggest vegan community on Lemmy wants to be an elitist cycle of hardcore vegans only, not allowing any slightly different opinion. Which would be very unfortunate.

PS: In contrast to the name of this community, I don't want to insult anyone here being a 'bastard'. I just want to post this somewhere on neutral ground. I would really appreciate an open discussion without bashing anyone.

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[–] [email protected] 15 points 21 hours ago (3 children)

It's like they don't realize that by being this hostile towards any other viewpoints, they drive away people who might otherwise be interested in becoming vegan or want to learn more. All it does is harm the community in the long run, and then they wonder why there's a stigma around vegans. That stigma then feeds into a persecution complex and that becomes a nasty vicious cycle.

[–] [email protected] -4 points 12 hours ago (2 children)

Is it their job to teach and convert you? Maybe they just want a space to exist in without having to work for others.

[–] [email protected] 15 points 11 hours ago* (last edited 11 hours ago) (1 children)

Nobody is forcing them to reply to a comment.

Plus, if they want more people to be vegan, then kinda yeah

[–] [email protected] -1 points 2 hours ago

Maybe what they want is to be left alone in peace?

I'm sure you don't want Trump as president, it doesn't mean you want to go around having to debate with everyone and inform them why he is bad. Sometimes you want to kick back and just say 'Trump sucks shit' and not have to explain yourself because you're with likeminded company.