I tend to browse /All and by New on Lemmy. I went to respond on a thread on !vegan@lemmy.world 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.
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.
But there was no interaction with them at all?
Yeah I'm saying the mods might be intentionally cutting off world users preemptively before they move.
But even then, I'm a lemmy.ca user. I just posted it here because it's their instance.
Oh, my bad, yeah no idea whats going on there.