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Block lemmy.ml if lemmy feels tirening.
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Should i ask what the "cat food ban" was?
It's a long story but basically after some stupid drama, lemmy.world banned discussion of cat food unless there was scientific evidence presented that the cat food was healthy for the cat. The drama had been about vegan cat food discussions in the vegan discussion group. Vegan cat food turns out to be a thing and appears to have enough approvals to be sold in pet stores, but people on .world wanting to talk about it should come over here to .ml. No I wasn't a participant in the vegan group discussion itself. I made some posts in the surrounding drama thread that you can probably find in my .world profile from shortly after I joined.
????? I'm still confused.
Lemmy.world's admin (not community mods but the actual instance admin) decreed that lemmy.world was going to be like Wikipedia, where anything controversial that you posted had to be accompanied by a research citation, more or less. The specific statement under dispute was that brand XYZ vegan cat food was ok to feed to your cat. A bunch of idiots howled "cats are obligate carnivores, hur hur! They can't survive on a vegan diet! Mods, delete that comment!!!!" and the site admin sided with the idiots. So I had to escape from the stupidity. Are you still confused? Btw the vegan cat food is perfectly fine for cats as far as I can tell. No I'm not about to go look for ~~diffs~~ links so some of those details may be garbled by now.
I don't think the citation policy was ever enforced on anything else, but anything that crazy is hard to forget.
.world also defederated hexbear because it didn't like hexbear's politics, but I'm a regular on hexbear's covid community (which is pretty good and not that political) so I had to go elsewhere for it. I can still reach it from .ml but this convinced me that the federation model is a failure. There's no giant Spez overlord who can censor you, but there are 100 petty instance admins who can censor you instead. I'm still on Lemmy to stay away from Spez though.
WHAT that is BONKERS
Well you can find the actual wording, but I think it didn't have much effect except that one discussion. The edict was issued and otherwise forgotten about.
Still crazy it was even a thing lol. What a concept. And then to weaponize it. Against vegans. All of it is increasingly absurd and ridiculous. Thank you for sharing it with me.