this post was submitted on 10 Jan 2025
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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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Make sure you follow this instance's code of conduct. In other words we won't allow bellyaching about being sanctioned for hate speech or bigotry.


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Fake vegans (sopuli.xyz)
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] 3 points 4 hours ago (1 children)

That's not how it works. Just because someone is letting you listen in doesn't mean you deserve a platform in their spaces

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 hour ago (1 children)

Spamming propaganda and erasing all criticism isn't "letting" you do anything. It's shouting in your ear and slapping you for backsass.

When the enforced opinions of a space are all that space is about... that's a circlejerk. It's nothing like a knitting community with a 'no racism' policy, despite identical mechanisms. It exists solely to push an agenda. They don't want federation. They demand a docile audience.

You have to admit it's kind of funny that Lemmy's clearest example of this is militant vegans.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 49 minutes ago (1 children)

Nobody is forcing you to go into the spaces where they're "spamming propaganda". Nobody forces you to subscribe to those comms and nothing is preventing your from blocking them altogether. You still don't deserve a platform in those comms.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 5 minutes ago* (last edited 4 minutes ago) (1 children)

Well I didn't invite and yet here it is in my feed. They didn't put it there for gentle outreach. It's all posts by [thing]lover@[thing].org, in the [thing]ism@[thing].org community, to exclusively talk about [thing] by promoting exactly one opinion about [thing]. Spam spam spam spam and absolutely no eggs.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 minute ago

If you're going to /all, you're going to see posts in all comms. Still is not a permissions or invite to a platform in every comm without respecting their rules. You're being deliberately obtuse.