That’s funny, I pissed off a bunch of vegans in those threads because I pointed out that we have to kill and eat other life to stay alive and that doesn’t necessarily make us better people because we pick and choose the “life” we think matters based on what looks and acts like us.

They read it as an excuse to kill more instead of a reason to respect all life more, which I think is funny as fuck. I think it really shows where their minds are at, because they can’t even philosophically engage with a different perspective that supports the same idea, that we should minimize suffering and all life is valuable, because they immediately view it as an excuse to kill more.

Hey, that’s awesome.

Seriously. I was saying somewhere else that it would be nice if we had the specific examples of what communities were “abusing their mod powers,” to help figure out whether this is a good policy or a horrifying policy. These are exactly the type of one-viewpoint communities that I really don’t think need to exist on Lemmy.

Moderators have the power to enforce only one viewpoint within their communities, in the software. That doesn’t mean that culturally, that should be an accepted thing to do. It should be met with the ridicule that it deserves, and if we’re taking a step towards that, then hooray.

Of course, none of this guarantees that this policy won’t slippery-slope its way down into forcing moderators to allow trolls of the friendly-to-the-admins variety, but I am hopeful, I guess. Not hopeful enough to resubscribe to a bunch of lemmy.world stuff I’ve been happier being unsubscribed to, of late, but hopeful nonetheless.