I tend to browse /All and by New on Lemmy. I went to respond on a thread on [email protected] 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.

  • @pivot_root
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    82 months 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