I don't have the spoons to work on this at the moment, but I changed the first line in the community sidebar to what I've interpreted this community to be for.

The vegan place to discuss things.

I really appreciate the discussions from a vegan viewpoint and prefer it much over the blogspam about plant based stuff. I'll try and work harder to remove that kind of content.

First of all, thanks for the kind words about my post

I agree that the news stuff felt a bit spammy at times, I wasn't really interested in that stuff and yet it took up a good amount of my feed (although it seems like the person who primarily was doing it has been banned for unrelated reasons now.) I've always kinda wished this instance had a more "general" community like the weekly megathreads and if other people feel that way then I'm all for it.

I was supposed to post about this. I would prefer more incidental stuff by vegans. Carnism is extremely ubiquitous and it's unpleasant to idk be chatting about raincoats and have someone suggest lanolin or beeswax. I'd prefer if it was the sort of comm where you could post incidental stuff like that.

I don't subscribe because I find myself having knee jerk reactions to posts promoting plant based capitalism and I don't want to be unkind and get into fights on the internet.

That's not really a suggestion, more an observation.

Perhaps a vegan theory community would make sense? I hesitate to suggest it because I know I won't make the effort to contribute.

Eta: I like the weekly threads!

Would it make sense to make a community called "Vegan News" and have the news articles posted there?

I'd a little be happier if it wasn't just people posting a link but also explaining why it's interesting, talking about what's there, etc

Makes sense! There are a few general communities. I've got a terrible work/life balance so I haven't been able to contribute as much as I would like.