Lemmy world vegan community - hostile takeover (lemmy.dbzer0.com)

submitted 1 month ago by neurospice@lemmy.dbzer0.com to c/yepowertrippinbastards@lemmy.dbzer0.com

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Figured that this community would appreciate power tripping lemmy world admins :)

cross-posted from: https://lemmy.dbzer0.com/post/26218550

(posting to both communities)

A carnist lemmy world instance admin has stepped in and meatsplained to the mods while restoring comments that violated the community's rules. They deleted comments that they did not agree with, citing 'misinformation', and threatened to demod the mods if those comments were removed again. The comments were deleted and the admin was banned from the community as per violating the rules of the community, that was until they unbanned themselves (admin abuse) and unmodded two of the moderators because of "promoting harmfull actions against pets".

As far as it stands, if the lemmy world community wasn't already not a safe vegan place for you (it really wasn't) it most certainly isn't now as carnists (lemmy world instance admin) currently mod it.

I suggest any vegan who wants a safe and welcoming space to come and interact with vegantheoryclub.org. Sorry for any inconvienance that this may have caused. I am deeply upset at the admins actions today and don't condone them whatsoever.

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[-] db0@lemmy.dbzer0.com 1 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago)

Hm, that's a tough case. I can understand your frustration and I would totally be making the same post if someone expropriated my community like that. Seeing it from a distant third person perspective, I can recognize that the admin however acted based on their truly held beliefs that the act promoted is akin to animal abuse (regardless of how feasible food supplements are, as they clarified later). So if one has such a strongly-held belief, it is understandable that they would take direct action like that.

That said, I think the admin is beholden to act less rashly in a decision around a conflict that ultimately doesn't have an immediate/urgent impact on anyone. They could have contacted the mods and explained their values do not match lemmy.world ones and arranged for a graceful community migration, rather than a hostile takeover.

Bad showing from the l.w admins, they were power trippin'.

this post was submitted on 19 Aug 2024

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