Vegans being banned and comments being deleted from !vegan@lemmy.world 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.
PPS: Some instances or clients seem to compress the screenshots in a way they’re unreadable. Find the full resolution here: https://imgur.com/a/8XdexTm
Linking the affected users and mods: @Cypher@lemmy.world @gaael@lemmy.world @gredo@lemmy.world @iiGxC@slrpnk.net @veganpizza69@lemmy.world @veganpizza69@lemmy.vg @jerkface@lemmy.ca @TheTechnician27@lemmy.world @Sunshine@lemmy.ca @Aqua@lemmy.vg
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.
Right now they’re getting shit on specifically because they can’t even stay in peace among themselves. This is about one small group of vegans abusing their powers to stop respectful discussion among and between vegans.
No, banning people is silencing them. If they were replying with “Veganism rules, carnist drool” we would be discussing this here and that would be the equivalent you have described.