Recent events over at lemmy.world have got me thinking, and I wanted to see what the community here are reddthat.com thinks.

Most details are available at the lw admin team’s latest post. TLDR A discussion about whether a vegan cat diet was viable started at c/vegan. An admin banned some comments and removed a moderator of the community. LW updated their TOS with a section about misinformation. The admin actions were reversed.

(Probably, I am misrepresenting the situation, read the link before taking up arms)

While, I prefer to enter my own opinions in a comment, I would like to add some questions to frame the discussion:

  1. What do you the new section about misinformatiom? Do you think reddthat needs one?
  2. What do you think about how the situation was handled by the LW admin team?
  3. Given that LW is the biggest lemmy instance, how do you think these changes will influence smaller instances like reddthat?
  4. Do you have any other take aways from this? Or any other questions?
  5. (bonus) Isn’t it hilarious that lemmy has its own tea (=gen z for drama)?
  • @over_cloxEnglish
    6•19 days ago

    I saw the original post, and I was a bit skeptical myself. But I believe they might have actually cracked the formula/recipe for truly vegan and nutrition complete cat food.

    I don’t blame the user for posting that at all. If it actually checks out, that’s a good thing in my book.

    But if it doesn’t check out as nutritionally complete, then the company making the food should be called out, not the user that posted the article.

    I want all the kitties, puppies and other critters to be as healthy as possible, just like any other caring person.

    • RBGEnglish
      8•19 days ago

      The bizzare thing about the whole drama is that while this started being about cat food, some summary posts I saw in my feed from other vegan communities finish their retelling by claiming the admin completely denied that vegan lifestyle is healthy, for anyone. When it was at all times always just about cat food. This whole thing just got super confusing very fast.

    • @[email protected]English
      5•19 days ago

      Honestly, I’m in complete agreement with you.

      I used to be 100% in the camp of, “cats are obligate carnivores and cannot have a plant-based diet.” But IF, and it’s a big if, they can get a truly nutritional complete feed with all the taurine and B-whatever they need… Then that’s not animal abuse.

      My main gripe is the admin, Rooki, enforcing their will on the community.

      I might get lambasted for this but I think Rogan has a good take on censorship. To summarize his point, the best way to combat wrong information is to challenge it, engage it, and provide good information. Let the correct consensus rise to he top with discussion and evidence. Don’t create an echo-chamber that stifles conversation and allows only GoodThink.