Recent events over at lemmy.world have got me thinking, and I wanted to see what the community here are reddthat.com thinks.
Most details are available at the lw admin team’s latest post. TLDR A discussion about whether a vegan cat diet was viable started at c/vegan. An admin banned some comments and removed a moderator of the community. LW updated their TOS with a section about misinformation. The admin actions were reversed.
(Probably, I am misrepresenting the situation, read the link before taking up arms)
While, I prefer to enter my own opinions in a comment, I would like to add some questions to frame the discussion:
- What do you the new section about misinformatiom? Do you think reddthat needs one?
- What do you think about how the situation was handled by the LW admin team?
- Given that LW is the biggest lemmy instance, how do you think these changes will influence smaller instances like reddthat?
- Do you have any other take aways from this? Or any other questions?
- (bonus) Isn’t it hilarious that lemmy has its own tea (=gen z for drama)?
Honestly, I’m in complete agreement with you.
I used to be 100% in the camp of, “cats are obligate carnivores and cannot have a plant-based diet.” But IF, and it’s a big if, they can get a truly nutritional complete feed with all the taurine and B-whatever they need… Then that’s not animal abuse.
My main gripe is the admin, Rooki, enforcing their will on the community.
I might get lambasted for this but I think Rogan has a good take on censorship. To summarize his point, the best way to combat wrong information is to challenge it, engage it, and provide good information. Let the correct consensus rise to he top with discussion and evidence. Don’t create an echo-chamber that stifles conversation and allows only GoodThink.