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I don't think I've seen every strawman argument against veganism all at the same time in the same place like that last thread that reached the front page the other day...

There's one moderator on the community, but that's not enough to stop the trolls coming here to derail any semblance of vegan discourse. Like, banning carnists here isn't gonna happen (unless it does I guess), but we could have mods with copy-paste anti-strawman arguments with proper citations on standby, so hopefully it never gets as bad as the other thread.

I'm not a fan of heavily moderated places, but maybe having a rule like "don't post post x y z argument and watch a b c Earthling Ed video instead" would help cut out some of the "good-faith" antivegans. But then again, the omis were excusing their behavior as it "reached the front page of lemmy", that means murder is OK now! ^/s^

Curious to see what the community's thoughts would be. Do we just need to relegate ourselves to the circlejerk communities from now on, or would this community actually be by vegans for vegans?

Edit 1: I am now a mod of the community. I've reworked the sidebar and added some resources on veganism, rules, and links to other communities. I am interested to gauge feedback on it, and if anyone has any suggestions please comment them :)

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[–] DroneRights@lemm.ee -2 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Yeah, Hexbear isn't really useful for xenogender people. They're horribly transphobic

[–] neurospice@lemmy.dbzer0.com 2 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Wait, really? I've only seen trans positive stuff from them so far

[–] Draconic_NEO@sh.itjust.works 1 points 1 year ago

They're trolling and attempting to start drama, hexbear is a lot of things but transphobic doesn't seem to be one of them.