I tend to browse /All and by New on Lemmy. I went to respond on a thread on !vegan@lemmy.world to thank someone for a recipe that looked good, and found out I had been banned.

Odd, considering I hadn't posted to that sub at any point in the past. I checked the modlog to find that "Mod" had banned a bunch of people citing "Rule 5."

Their Rule 5 states: Bad-faith carnist rhetoric & anti-veganism are not allowed, as this is not a space to debate the merits of veganism. Anyone is welcome here, however, and so good-faith efforts to ask questions about veganism may be given their own weekly stickied post in the future (see current stickied discussion).

I (and hundreds of others) seemingly broke rule 5 of this community without ever posting there. What is going on?

And my apologies if this isn't the place for this, but I had no idea where else to post the question.

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[–] Stovetop@lemmy.world 3 points 6 days ago (1 children)

I think I must've been banned as well, I saw a post in my All feed that I tried to upvote but received an error when doing so, just for that one community.

[–] ccunning@lemmy.world 1 points 6 days ago

“Rule 5” like most:
https://lemmy.world/modlog?page=1&userId=670823

[–] finitebanjo@lemmy.world 2 points 6 days ago* (last edited 6 days ago) (8 children)

The Vegan Community Mod vs Admin drama aside they're probably in the process of transferring to an instance where animal cruelty is explicitly allowed, so I wouldn't expect them to be very welcoming on the current instance.

[–] AceTKen@lemmy.ca 2 points 6 days ago (1 children)

But there was no interaction with them at all?

[–] finitebanjo@lemmy.world 2 points 6 days ago (1 children)

Yeah I'm saying the mods might be intentionally cutting off world users preemptively before they move.

[–] AceTKen@lemmy.ca 2 points 6 days ago (1 children)

But even then, I'm a lemmy.ca user. I just posted it here because it's their instance.

[–] finitebanjo@lemmy.world 1 points 6 days ago

Oh, my bad, yeah no idea whats going on there.

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[–] thesporkeffect@lemmy.world 1 points 6 days ago

Honestly this mod appears to be having a mental health crisis and it'd be more productive to try to reach out and have a conversation. I might be naive but if I was involved it'd be my first action.

[–] zoostation@lemmy.world 1 points 6 days ago (1 children)

This server is fucked

[–] almar_quigley@lemmy.world 0 points 6 days ago (2 children)

It’s really not. At least not from this.

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[–] Dasus@lemmy.world -5 points 6 days ago

Their own irrationality means their feelings on what is "bad-faith carnist rhetoric" depend entirely on their subjective feelings for the day.

I'm a flexitarian who's morality can actually be defended logically, unlike with vegans.

But their community, moderate as they see fit, I can't complain.

[–] pivot_root@lemmy.world 0 points 6 days ago

On the instance lemmy.world
The knickers of an admin had curled.
Suggestions of a vegan cat:
Red faced with ears of steam
He banned their moderation team.
Over something dramatic like that.

An admin decree was made:
A repeat was forbade.
"But that wasn't enough,"
Some moderators said with a huff.
Not wanting to be persecuted,
By plebians with vegan-hate rooted
They would make the place tamer
By turning it into an echo chamber

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