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.

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

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  • Blaze (he/him)
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    108 days ago

    Making a joke about someone you don’t regularly interact with even on a forum seems to be laughing about them rather than with them.

    • Phoenixz
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      015 hours ago

      And sometimes a joke is just a joke. Learn to take one.

      Once we get to the point where we are perfectly sensitive to every little irk that any person might have, we will be at the point where nobody interacts with anybody because we won’t be able to as anything and everything can be insulting.

      I have people joke about me all the time, it’s fine. I’m not following this person around to yell it in their face, it’s a comment in passing. It doesn’t hurt anyone unless you decided to stop and make a big deal out of it.

      Don’t make a big deal out of it, it was a little joke, everyone is fine. I’ve been relentlessly bullied for my entire youth, and I learned the hard way that some of the bullying you call out on your own with your behavior. If you cry over every little innocent joke, people will pile on. My bullying stopped when I decided it would stop. I changed, the bullying stopped.

        • AwesomeLowlander
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          -28 days ago

          Eh, imo the best way deal with bullies is to laugh at them, so I’ll beg to differ on this point.

          • Blaze (he/him)
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            18 days ago

            Not sure if keeping a “strict vegan” space should be considered bullying. There was also no such jokes on the carnivore thread, doing similar mod actions