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.
Good for the admin for not taking their shit. The mods are perpetual victims who then turn around and do some egregious bullshit by abusing sidebar rules. I’ve seen their mod logs and those fuckers ban anyone and delete anything on a whim.
I’ve seen their mod logs and those fuckers ban anyone and delete anything on a whim.
Then make a post about it here and stop whining in the comments
It’s criticism not whining, hotshot. You do that too well, though, by the looks of it. “Hostile takeover” This drama queen 😂
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’.
I encourage everyone to check the mod logs. On one hand a carnist stating nonsense. On the other someone calmly explaining how synthetic taurine is widely used and modern evidence suggests cats can transition to properly formulated vegan food, while acknowledging that many bad formulations exist and that a whole food diet would kill them.
Unfortunately for the toxo brained admin who is definitely on the side of animals while claiming you can own them. This is unacceptable!