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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You’re seeing the rules of of necessity of running a comm on the internet and purposefully stretch what public means to argue nobody is allowed to curate their comms unless they’re invisible. It’s an inane take.
They can erase every last comment they get, if that’s how they want to spend their time. They are free to create problems for themselves. But if they’re burned-out as a result of mercilessly nitpicking even the folks who already agree with them, what on Earth could solve that, besides changing what they’re doing?
If you create a list of rules that almost nobody expects or enjoys, your target audience is: almost nobody.
Niche communities can thrive in a wide-open space if they’re easy to ignore. Weird fetishes, small countries, that kind of thing. The Cypriots are not “constantly brigaded.” But that would change if every third post went “Cyprus is the only good country, everyone else sucks,” and all disagreement was censored. However justified they feel in that message or that curation, the result is entirely predictable… and therefore, avoidable.