Thank you very much. I always feel so ignorant when I don't know things and with such sensitive topics, I always sorry a search engine will misinform me.
I can’t speak for everyone obviously, but among LGBT people there are a lot of ‘microidentities’ that nobody really expects all LGBT people to know about, much less anyone who isn’t. As long as you aren’t all “UGH what is this WEIRD SHIT you have come up with NOW???” it’s perfectly fine to ask what it means.
Replace "Lemmyverse" with "the American left" and you're closer to the truth.
The American left is against racism ... yet harbours an alarming amount of antisemitism and an increasing amount of sinophobia.
The American left is against ageism ... directed at young people. Old people are open season.
The American left is against religious bigotry ... except Christians.
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It's just tribalism cosplaying as idealism. (And it's why, for example, Chinese LGBT groups have been quietly removing themselves from interaction with American LGBTQA+ groups over the past few years.)
I believe if you host an instance it wont be federated until you start to follow other communities from other instances, then from my understanding all the communities in that instance will start to show up in your 'all' section. so the more you follow the more you will start to federate. thats what makes this tool so great is that you can search all communities and follow them since if you searched from your instance it wont find everything
thats what this tool does, it lets you search all instances, but the great thing is it lets you choose what instance you are in so that the links open in your instance, instead of having to copy and paste into the search bar like with other search tools ive seen
What's wrong with minority views and practices creating their own spaces?
On which, is there any non-vegan/anti-vegan thought or idea that a vegan is likely to have not heard already? How many haven't they heard relative to the amount of decent "pro-vegan" ideas they also haven't heard of?
Maybe a specialised space, echo chamber even, makes sense in order to balance against the gravity of the mainstream?
Right. Well, I think the instance name "vegantheory.org" was doing that already, and I'm betting you drew your conclusion from the public description of the place too (and aren't in the modlog or anything for challenging their ideas).
they drive away potential allies because the concept of harm reduction is anathema to their binary thinking. If you’re not ALL in, you’re the enemy.
I can resonate with that. But I come back to ... "it's totally ok for people to create their own spaces, especially on federated social media and especially for minority groups/ideas".
There are likely plenty of other spaces for "potential allies" to engage and talk about veganism if they want to, or plenty they, or you, could make on their own.
Tacitly admitting that vegans are usually antisocial zealots. “It’s right in the name!”
Well, they're running their own social media platform, so I'm not sure how anti-social they are.
Veganism tends to be a religion for a lot of vegans and they drive away potential allies because the concept of harm reduction is anathema to their binary thinking. If you’re not ALL in, you’re the enemy.
That is a strawman and a lie as vegans are always celebrating the small wins for the increased protections on animal rights.
I believe you ... gate-keeping types are all over the place really.
But vegans or the "vegan-curious" aren't one thing or one kind of person, at least not any more. I personally have only ever had positive conversations with vegan types.
This instance, in being insistent on not entertaining any "harm reduction" or "compromises", makes sense though ... because it's a space for people to talk about that sort of dedicated approach.
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