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Banned over fish joke (lemmy.sdf.org)
submitted 1 day ago* (last edited 1 day ago) by JayDee@lemmy.sdf.org to c/yepowertrippinbastards@lemmy.dbzer0.com

UPDATE: The Unbans are showing up on modlog now.:

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~~I have traded the month-long ban in the many communities for a 6-day ban in vegan@lemmy.dbzero.com, which is a more reasonable ban~~. this ban has also been lifted now. I appreciate the cooperation from the mod over this misunderstanding.


So it seems i've gotten a month-long ban in..... over 30 communities across lemmy.dbzer0.com, sopuli.xyz, lemmy.ca, programming.dev, and several others, for this comment here.

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It's directly replying to a comment saying they can't imagine why anyone thought otherwise about fish feeling pain, which is reasonable. You might notice the quotation marks, because it's satirizing people's mental gymnastics about fishes' pain perception. It was meant in jest, exclusively.

It seems likely that a single mod took this joke wrong and chose to ban me on every community they have control over.

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[-] OmegaLemmy@discuss.online 35 points 1 day ago

PTB, if you were banned from vegan Comms I wouldn't really care, but a joke getting you banned from multiple non related Comms over several instances? Now that is crazy

[-] Ledericas@lemm.ee 3 points 19 hours ago

It's like the crossbans of reddit. As soon as you either comment and get banned from a sub, other subs that don't like your subs preemptively ban you

[-] FelixCress@lemmy.world 11 points 1 day ago

PTB, if you were banned from vegan Comms I wouldn't really care,

I would. He absolutely shouldn't be banned from vegan community for something he wrote in a different community.

[-] Breezy@lemmy.world 13 points 1 day ago

I thought i had a perm ban from them when i called them hypocrites for not caring for the feelings of vegetables. Saddly it was not

[-] OmegaLemmy@discuss.online 3 points 1 day ago
[-] Breezy@lemmy.world 8 points 1 day ago

But i was honestly serious. How can they talk about animals feelings when not even looking at plants feelings. Again im 100 percent serious.

[-] PlexSheep@infosec.pub 3 points 11 hours ago
[-] Breezy@lemmy.world 1 points 7 hours ago

Nope. No /s or anything.

[-] Gladaed@feddit.org 7 points 21 hours ago

Because by eating animals one consumes more plants by proxy. That being said, getting eaten is a core part of many plants lifecycle. Same is true for a lot of animals, but to a lesser extent. On particular for domesticated animals this argument falls apart a little. But they still exist to be eaten and are advantaged evolutionarily if they are good at that. Adverse effects like diseases and pollution do exist.

[-] UniversalMonk@lemmy.dbzer0.com 3 points 1 day ago* (last edited 1 day ago)

Some people are gonna give you grief about this, but you raise an interesting point. I was just talking about this the other day with my gf and my son over a vegetarian dinner we were having. There is more and more research about plants be more intelligent (for lack of better word) than we thought before. Still kinda taboo in science circles, but it is being discussed and looking into.

[-] Maeve@kbin.earth 4 points 1 day ago

I mean plants do communicate distress, so I can see that. While we haven't evolved to live solely on sunlight, suffering will happen. That we are aware and only take what's needed, with respect seems correct.

[-] psud@aussie.zone 5 points 23 hours ago

You don't even need plants with feelings. Grain fields carry all the field animals like rabbits and rodents. Those animals flee from cleared land into long grass

So as combine harvesters clear the fields the animals are concentrated into smaller and smaller areas

Harvester operators call the last acre 'the bloody acre' due to the number of animals cut up by the harvester blades

You can't eat without animal deaths unless you go to the extreme of just eating fruit you pick yourself

Also the monoculture fields are destroying the land. We need permaculture solutions and there isn't a way to do that without animals to fertilize the land

[-] Breezy@lemmy.world 3 points 1 day ago

And whos to say if that means something less then how we feel. Plants are a living being and should be givin as much or as little respect as anything else.

[-] Maeve@kbin.earth -4 points 1 day ago

Rocks and water too, imo. Different discussion, different place. Goodnight everyone.

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