And if you haven’t used it in a while, we recently made a blog post giving a rundown of the changes leading up to our most recent major release.

Damn, and you almost picked the cool, not tankie kind of communism too.

Veganism. I went vegetarian and stayed there for a long time, and I assumed taking the extra step to being vegan would be too difficult relative to what I thought at the time was a marginal benefit. A couple years back, I watched the documentary Dominion (NSFL) and realized pretty quickly that I’d been mistaken. Of course it was more than just Dominion, but it’s such an acutely traumatizing kick in the teeth that it was definitely the last straw.

Is there such a community here? Maybe you could start one.

inb4 one of these gets improperly installed and gives someone an existential crisis (still looks pretty and useful for the directionally challenged, though!)

Here you go.

Not really. In terms of engaging with posts, oh my god, absolutely it’s worse. Twitter and its clones suck when it comes to engaging with things people post (but Mastodon at least makes it a bit better by increasing the character limit). But there’s just something different about following a hashtag versus following a Lemmy community. Like for example, when it comes to getting highly detailed, up-to-the-minute news about things, Mastodon beats Lemmy every time. Additionally, I can see people’s random, one-off takes that wouldn’t really warrant a post on Lemmy.

I would argue too that it’s not even true that you should just be focused on following hashtags, but rather that you should be trying to do both.

To me, Lemmy is the type of place I could kill two hours; for Mastodon, it’s maybe 15 minutes, but that doesn’t make it inferior, just a different use-case. It’s pretty apples-to-oranges.

Silly vegoon, you can’t just invoke obvious facts from 2nd-grade biology and a rudimentary understanding of thermodynamics which would tell you that there are enormous energy losses in converting plant matter to the animal flesh that I eat. I don’t understand either of those subjects, and so that means you haven’t addressed my point. 😡 Now excuse me while I seriously claim that animals are only fed on “waste crops” or whatever while 67% of crops in the US are grown to feed animals and every 3 calories of beef takes 100 calories of grain.

I am very smart and not at all arguing in bad faith.

Just clarifying that animal agriculture in Europe still represents unthinkable cruelty on an unimaginable scale even if specific practices are outlawed there.

I love this idea that veganism is a grift by the big Vitamin B12 supplement industry (???) despite literally zero evidence and in fact evidence to the contrary, unlike the notoriously corrupt and gargantuan animal agriculture industry. God, please be a troll or someone who was out sick when their class learned critical thinking in 3rd grade as well as every single period of science class.

Oh yeah? Name them. Name the specific one. Every single one of these has a statement on potential conflict of interest and/or how it was funded. Go ahead. Tell me.

Hi, Europe! Four years ago, Denmark systematically killed 2.84 minks for every one person living in Denmark.

Oh, and how’s that whole banning live exports thing going? Not at all? Cool!

But to straight telling anyone who eats meat is subhuman is nearly unbearable annoying of you.

Boy, that’s an absolute hell of a strawman. I’m deeply comforted that this is the sort of sound, rational thinker that the LW administration thinks should be kept on-board.

Oh god, oh fuck, we need to get the word out to these highly educated nutritional scientists, cardiologists, gastroenterologists, endocrinologists, pulmonologists, oncologists, bariatricians, and nephrologists that “it’s the opposite, actually” as soon as possible. I’ll bet they’ll feel like idiots when they need to retract the dozens of meta-analyses and systemic reviews they’ve meticulously authored both showing that plant-based diets tend to be healthier than omnivorous ones and giving explanations for why.

I thought it over, and I’ve decided that from now on, I’ll only be getting my meat from Elwood’s. They’re stock animals, so I don’t have to worry about harming pets anymore.

“Say the line, Adam!”

Quick, someone post “Cascade” from Homestuck and bring down the entire fediverse.

True. I believe B12 is the other big one, although that is trivially supplemented to my recollection.

Cats need meat or they don’t

And yet this binary assumption that you’re taking completely for granted for some reason is fundamentally flawed. Cats need amino acids from meat that they cannot produce themselves. The scientific research being conducted is over whether these amino acids can be artificially produced and vegan cat food fortified with them in such a way that the cats can properly absorb them. If yes, then voila, you have healthful vegan cat food.

Moreover, they note that it’s a small community with three subscribers, which could actually hold weight as evidence of brigading if we were on Reddit. But on Lemmy? Nah, you kind of just see everything.

If we’re sorting by new on /r/all, I need to scroll back several pages on RiF to even see something that was posted 30 seconds ago; the chance that more than a few users will see the same feed there is tiny.

On Lemmy, by contrast, sorting ‘All’ by new gives me posts in the last 10-ish minutes on just the first page; things just move a ton more slowly. Consequently, there’s a lot more outsiders who are liable to see and interact with your post in a small community.