Vegans: Make a community for themselves

Meat-eaters: See block button. Choose to downvote/comment against it instead.

If posts about veganism are that offensive to you, just block and move on. If there were a com about meat-eating, that’s what I’d do with it.

Okay, all you wonderful, reasonable people, I’m ready for your downvotes!

The only reason Im here is because i browse by everything and posts in this comm pop up frequently. Same as womenstuff so I get exposed to these posts without making any effort at all to encounter them as non vegetarian.

I don’t vote on the vast majority of posts I encounter. I don’t care for the voting system but I’ll use it if a post strikes me as bad content for Lemmy in general.

I don’t care what comm I’m in. Rarely check. I’ll engage with content if I have something to say, usually pass without comment. As most people do.

I don’t understand why restricted comms even show up for the whole Lemmy to see if they aren’t welcome to have all of lemmys eyeballs on them.

People who post content in niche places that are actively hostile to the vast majority of a larger community are naturally going to get massacred in any popular vote. That’s just math. And it’s a problem because it’s content for the wrong audience and just causes friction.

As far as I know unlike a comm that restricts who is allowed to post, non vegans are welcome to be here even if they aren’t very much appreciated and many of the vegans would just prefer they avoided it entirely instead of messing with it. Look but don’t touch kind of thing that’s my approach, but I get it wrong or just have had days too like anyone else.

I don’t think blocking out things you don’t like, or make you a bit sqeemish about, is a good habit to form. It’s absolutely a valuable tool but it’s too easy to create echo chambers and I constantly see that lack of encountering things greater than your own opinion being bad for your health over the long run.

We need to challenge the things that make us uncomfortable to make any real change happen. I wish I had a better solution for the people who need tear down all the things they don’t personally feel comfortable with it that challenge them in someway.

Perhaps I’m naive, but I look at this place and others like it as people sharing their opinions not communities acting as a group. It’s convenient to have those communities because they are real things that exist, but the content is for everyone even when everyone shouldn’t be responding to it. I hope I explained that properly.

Food and the consumption of it is a human universality. We all have it in common so I think whether you are vegan, vegetarian, or neither, it will draw interest far outside those it is intended to because food is just relatable one way or another.

I think it’s very mature of the vegans communities I’ve encountered on here that they don’t segregate themselves. I think that’s the only way to stop hostilities between different worldviews and start helping each other be better.

Thanks for getting through my dumb thoughts. If you are ever in Quebec City, one of the best soups I’ve ever had was a Thai curry soup from Don Vegan the first vegan only restaurant in that historic city.