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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.

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[–] finitebanjo 27 points 6 days ago* (last edited 6 days ago) (2 children)

The Vegan Community Mod vs Admin drama aside they're probably in the process of transferring to an instance where animal cruelty is explicitly allowed, so I wouldn't expect them to be very welcoming on the current instance.

[–] [email protected] 26 points 6 days ago (3 children)

Bet you're on the ban list now. Shit! I'm talking to you. Guess I'm on the ban list now too

[–] [email protected] 9 points 6 days ago

You get a ban and you get a ban! Everyone gets a ban!

[–] chemical_cutthroat 6 points 6 days ago (1 children)

Can I get on the ban list, too?

[–] [email protected] 12 points 6 days ago (1 children)
[–] [email protected] 11 points 6 days ago (1 children)

Not enough questions? Believe it or not, straight to ban.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 6 days ago

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(The guy in red's name is Ban:-)

[–] [email protected] 9 points 6 days ago (1 children)

But there was no interaction with them at all?

[–] finitebanjo 6 points 6 days ago (1 children)

Yeah I'm saying the mods might be intentionally cutting off world users preemptively before they move.

[–] [email protected] 7 points 6 days ago (1 children)

But even then, I'm a lemmy.ca user. I just posted it here because it's their instance.

[–] finitebanjo 4 points 6 days ago

Oh, my bad, yeah no idea whats going on there.