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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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

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[–] Blackmist 9 points 6 days ago (1 children)

One of the first communities I blocked.

[–] Tattorack@lemmy.world 3 points 6 days ago
[–] Draconic_NEO@lemmy.dbzer0.com 9 points 6 days ago* (last edited 6 days ago)

PTB for sure, they're removing comments not 100% in support of them which is iffy, but now they are trying to decide that people aren't real vegans because they don't agree with the mods, WTF?!?

Also is it just me or does this mod seem like they might be an Alt of Beaver (a previous mod of the Vegan community who was removed from the community for power-tripping) was known for making alts and trying to sneak herself back in as mod a few times with her alts, as well as fostering ill will towards the mod who removed her using her alt accounts. She ultimately deleted her accounts after being called out for the behavior and when these tactics weren't working.

@TheTechnician27@lemmy.world Maybe you might want to look into this, it's very possible the person who was power-tripping before was somehow able to get back in as a mod on an alt account without you or other mods knowing it was them.

[–] Tattorack@lemmy.world 8 points 6 days ago

Militant vegans always seemed cult-like to me, and nothing reinforced that idea more than seeing posts from the vegan group on here.

Didn't take long for me to block that community.

[–] Ilovethebomb@lemm.ee 7 points 6 days ago* (last edited 6 days ago) (1 children)

Lemmy vegans are a never ending source of entertainment, aren't they?

Also, I had a quick look through the community, and it's mostly one person posting, with a big chunk of their posts attracting zero comments.

Very strange.

[–] Warl0k3@lemmy.world 7 points 6 days ago

It used to be pretty active, but everyone bailed right around when the mods started with the purity tests and thumbscrews. Like most subcultures viewed as 'cringe', the reputation comes from one or two users being fucking weirdos and then everyone reposting their insanity for meme points.

[–] mojofrododojo@lemmy.world 5 points 6 days ago (2 children)

unrelated to the drama:

who are these 'screenshots' for? because they're so small and compressed I cannot read the text.... are these automated or?

[–] Zagorath@aussie.zone 8 points 6 days ago (1 children)

They're not. That's your instance showing you the thumbnail instead of the real image, for some reason. Contact your admins to see if they can fix the problem, and in the meantime view the image from another instance.

[–] mojofrododojo@lemmy.world 4 points 6 days ago

fascinating, I use lemmy.world, appreciate the feedback

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