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[–] [email protected] 7 points 3 days ago

I'm doing my part!

[–] [email protected] 5 points 1 week ago (1 children)

I thought about not sending this as I have been very unsuccessful in advocating for veganism, but considering the other comments I thought I may as well share.

When I became vegan at 16 I had my worldview shatter. I promptly went and told all my friends about veganism, the horrors of animal agriculture, and urged them to become educated on the issue. All, with one exception, got upset at me when I talked about it and eventually stopped being my friends, partly due to me advocating for veganism. I think the last straw was when I sent the group chat Dominion after I had seen it. It was very traumatising to watch and I wanted the others to know of the horrors they were contributing to (especially considering we were all living in Australia), but apparently I was "making everything about myself" again... I ditched their sorry asses soon afterwards.

The only exception to this, ended up watching some Earthling Ed videos I had sent and ended up becoming an "ethical" vegetarian 😭. I tried explaining how the dairy industry is not "ethical", but they genuinely seem to not be able to understand or care enough to do anything about it. I was mortified that I had created a vegetarian.

Afterwards, I didn't have many friends due to being vegan—among other issues—, but the one time I did make a new friend (via falling in love with an omni) I did basically instantly convert them to veganism just by explaining that meat is murder and veganism is based lol. I think they just trusted my word for it and they are a super based vegan still after years.

So becoming vegan, I lost lots of friends (although veganism was just one of many things that amounted to that), accidentally converted one to vegetarianism, and only once successfully created another vegan. I'm quite ashamed of how little (perceived) impact I've made, but recently I have been quite proud of my one convert as they are my best friend now and I don't have to deal with carnists on a day to day basis.

[–] [email protected] 7 points 3 weeks ago

I don't have the spoons to work on this at the moment, but I changed the first line in the community sidebar to what I've interpreted this community to be for.

The vegan place to discuss things.

I really appreciate the discussions from a vegan viewpoint and prefer it much over the blogspam about plant based stuff. I'll try and work harder to remove that kind of content.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 month ago

Removed: source is paywalled

[–] [email protected] 4 points 1 month ago (2 children)

Did you announce the announcement announcing this announcement?

[–] [email protected] 4 points 1 month ago (2 children)

I guess this has been announced twice now LOL

 

The actor_name_max_length^[https://github.com/LemmyNet/lemmy/blob/8d269fc08ee0efb03c20f97b4c1075881046490d/crates/api_common/src/site.rs#L260] in the site settings has been set to 30. This can be verified by checking here: https://vegantheoryclub.org/api/v3/site

Basically this means that people can now set display names of up to 30 characters long. Before it was set to 20, which meant that things like adding pronouns to the display name would often hit the character limit and would prevent you from editing your name.

This also applies to Site, and Community,^[https://github.com/LemmyNet/lemmy/blob/main/crates/db_schema/src/source/activity.rs#L86] but that's probably not too important to mention, as community names have been fine with the limit.

Special thanks to @[email protected] for changing these values and following my poorly explained tutorial on how to edit the site settings.

Also TIL, powershell aliases curl despite it existing as a command in Windows already.^[https://stackoverflow.com/a/66840040]

[–] [email protected] 6 points 1 month ago (2 children)

My favourite beans are Gigantes plaki and I usually eat it with rigatoni. Very interested in seeing all the kinds of beans people eat here!

[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 month ago (1 children)

Palm oil doesn’t contain animal products, so it’s vegan. Full stop.

This is a misleading argument to make. Plenty of things can be nonvegan even if it doesn't contain animal products (slave labor, horse riding, drug testing, etc.). Whether or not something merely contains animal products is not a measure of somethings vegan status. Please see the definition of veganism here: https://www.vegansociety.com/go-vegan/definition-veganism

[–] [email protected] 7 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago)

Oat milk <3

[–] [email protected] 5 points 1 month ago (2 children)

At this rate we'll need guide lists for the guide lists! Thanks for this :)

Once you've edited this list enough that it feels ok, could we archive it or distribute it in a way that involves not using google? It'll make sure it doesn't get taken down in future and people who don't/can't use google services will be able to see it as well.

Also, I got asked to pin this (to which I did), but I didn't realise it didn't come from you! Hope you don't mind!

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 month ago (1 children)

It should be pinned now!

[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 month ago

Oh wow, can't believe I didn't notice that link haha. Glad to hear they ship overseas :)

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