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Please also check out vegantheoryclub.org for a great set of well-run communities for vegan news, cooking, gardening, and art. It is not federated with LW, but it is a nice, cozy, all-in-one space for vegans.
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Welcome to c/vegan@lemmy.world. Broadly, this community is a place to discuss veganism. Discussion on intersectional topics related to the animal rights movement are also encouraged.
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'Veganism is a philosophy and way of living which seeks to exclude—as far as is possible and practicable—all forms of exploitation of, and cruelty to, animals ...'
— abridged definition from The Vegan Society
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Lemmy: vegantheoryclub.org
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General Vegan Comms
!vegan@vegantheoryclub.org
!vegan@slrpnk.net
Circlejerk Comms
!vegancirclejerk@lemmy.world
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!homecooks@vegantheoryclub.org
!veganrecipes@sh.itjust.works
!recipes@vegantheoryclub.org
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I'm not vegan but I respect people for wanting a space to discuss.
https://sh.itjust.works/c/veganrecipes
https://slrpnk.net/c/vegan
vegantheoryclub.org is defederated from most of lemmy, but these communities are accessible and they are located on other instances.
@Beaver@lemmy.ca what communities do you prefer?
Seems like a red flag.
I personally just visit the community !vegan@vegantheoryclub.org since it is hosted and ran completely by vegans.
I would recommend the instances of VeganTheoryClub and Lemmy.vg to experience the vegan subculture without censorship.
I tried to sub, but I've been waiting at pending for months
It could because the instances slowly federating more instances on a case by case basis.
Maybe I'm misunderstanding something but when I go to the instance list on lemmy.world it lists vegantheoryclub.org as being a linked instance. For good measure I also made sure that it wasn't on the blocked instances list. But when I try to view any community that exists on vegantheoryclub.org from lemmy.world it gives an error as if the entire instance is blocked.
If an instance is defederated it would show up on the blocked instance list right? That's literally what that is a lost of is it not? And if so was vegantheoryclub very recently defederated and the list just hasn't been updated or something?
To give more context the Instance Vegan Theory Club defederated from Lemmy World since there were too many troll comments originating from there.
It only shows up as blocked if the instance is actively blocking it. VeganTheoryClub blocks LemmyWorld, but not the other way around and once an instance blocks another, traffic will not go through in either directions.
Ah, that makes sense. I hadn't considered that they might be blocking it the other way around. Thank you.
The mods here were deleting any comments (correctly) suggesting that vegan diets are unhealthy for housecats, so whatever "discussion" you thought was possible before the admins came around wasn't happening, because the mods forbid any discussion that includes difficult facts.
I humbly offer https://lemmy.ca/c/veganism
Theres also hexbear.net/c/vegan and hexbear.net/c/food, in fact the whole instance has a vegan-as-the-norm mindset even if not everyone is vegan.