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🌱The Vegan Userbase on Lemmy Has Reached 110 Users!🌱 (lemmy.vg)

submitted 1 week ago by [email protected] to c/[email protected]

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The vegan community is growing on the lemmyverse now at 110 registered users that makes a MAU of 69 (0.15%) of the 44.9k Lemmy userbase.

If we apply the 90-9-1 rule with rounding factored in, we would have 55 lurkers, 5 small contributors and 1 contributor.

Lemmy.vg has 39 users, 7 communities, 533 posts, 376 comments and 18 6mo active users. Started on 24-05-09.

Vegantheoryclub.org has 71 users, 13 communities, 1200 posts, 2500 comments and 51 6mo active users. Started on 24-04-10.

[email protected] has 106 posts, 110 comments, 83 subscribers and 671 6mo visitiors.

[email protected] has 388 posts, 1300 comments, 310 subscribers and 2500 6mo visitors.

Here are the signup pages if you’re interested: Lemmy.vg and Vegantheoryclub.org both are anarchist.

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[–] [email protected] 41 points 1 week ago (14 children)

There are definitely more vegans on lemmy but given they are frequently targeted with harassment and trolling I doubt all of them are willing to expose themselves to such behavior.

I'm happy lemmy is flexible enough to offer spaces for all of us, assholes be damned. Thanks for offering places for people to feel comfortable!

[–] [email protected] 20 points 1 week ago (4 children)

Thanks for not fucking up the planet any faster than you have to, and for being a better person than I am.

I've almost given up meat. I don't see myself ever giving up cheese. But I appreciate you guys and what you're (not) doing.

[–] [email protected] 16 points 1 week ago

I don't see myself ever giving up cheese.

Never say never. I thought the same for some time.

[–] [email protected] 8 points 1 week ago (1 children)

Thanks for not fucking up the planet any faster than you have to, and for being a better person than I am.

Agree with this however I'm not vegan and don't want to take underserved credit for the effort it takes to make it a permanent change.

I'm heading down the path but still have a ways to go to the destination.

[–] [email protected] 7 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago) (3 children)

If everyone made an effort we'd live in a completely different world almost over night. At least as someone who cares about sustainability side of it, that's what matters. But I appreciate that veganism consists of a bunch of different forms of arguments and motivations.

[–] [email protected] 10 points 1 week ago

My path to veganism has more to do with refusing to be poisoned by the corporate clowns that don't care they're killing us all with listeria and microplastics in EVERYTHING and a supply chain that I refuse to depend on.

It shouldn't be unreasonable to buy and consume healthy vegetables from a normal store but it gets harder every day. My means of survival will not be affected by recalls and cross contamination, corporate greed, or animal slavery.

IMO- Our survival will depend on our ability to take back control from companies that would sell us our doom with a shiny ribbon wrapped around it. Self-sustainable veganism is my bet for our future and I'm doing everything I can to bring it to reality as quickly as I can.

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

If everyone made an effort we’d live in a completely different world almost over night.

set a date

[–] kwomp2 0 points 1 week ago (1 children)

This statement (about everyone single personal effort) only becomes meaningful when you take into consideration why people don't. If you do, you will encounter the dialectics of structure and "personal choice" and how complicated history is and how it is not at all about "everybody make a small change in their life".

The liberal feverdream of individual solutions for structural problems is bound to end up in "I buy good groceries".

And, eventhough veganism is a good thing to do, this is why I'm personally so annoyed by vegan communities.

I dont know if reducing your personal sin count or whatever is a substitute for radical critique and political action, or an add-on, so I didn't downvote. But maybe it explains some of it.

[–] [email protected] 5 points 1 week ago (3 children)

How are the corporations and governments going to change if one person doesn’t commit the first action of doing better and inspiring others to do the same. As people buy animal products in grocery stores and people vote in carnist political parties.

The liberal feverdream of individual solutions for structural problems is bound to end up in "I buy good groceries".

And, eventhough veganism is a good thing to do, this is why l'm personally so annoyed by vegan communities.

That’s a strawman because if you were paying attention you would notice that vegans are doing street outreach, disruptive protests and factory farm liberation to save the animal victims from immense suffering. They’re not simply buying “good groceries”

Universal suffrage, abolition and gay marriage didn’t just suddenly came out of thin air because corporations and governments decided to become nicer no it was it was the unsurmountable pressure by the people protesting for better treatment for all.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 week ago

How are the corporations and governments going to change if one person doesn’t commit the first action of doing better and inspiring others to do the same.

didn't you already try that

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago)

Universal suffrage, abolition and gay marriage didn’t just suddenly came out of thin air because corporations and governments decided to become nicer

of course not. it was people advocating for their recognition as fully human

[–] kwomp2 -1 points 1 week ago

"Strawman" - and then you just go with "vegans"... so all? Most? Some? Or maybe just the tiniest percentage? I think you understand for wich ones my argument applies and how "strawman" doesn't, cause numbers. You know, if you pay attention..

Ok lets cut the rhetorics, I was trying to be sincere. I think you might wanna pay some more of that attention (omg sry I stop now) to "dialectic". This does explicitly not mean you can turn the thing around and solely look at the other side.

So of course no change ever happens if all those one persons don't do anything. But they will only change history if they change the underlying structures. To do so, they have to overcome their individualistic constriction and reach collective agency.

You gotta organize. The market won't do, since it is THE form of organization that makes everyone a single player. Both, in their acting and in their consciousness.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 week ago (8 children)

You're doing more than the vast majority of people, so this isn't supposed to be an attack but isn't it kinda selfish to still eat cheese when you, from what it seems like, understand why it's wrong? Anyway, actual cheese can already be made vegan but, at least in the EU, the company just isn't allowed to sell it because they're still waiting for approval but other companies like Rewe are also starting to invest in it, so hopefully it won't take long until it can be sold. I think they're starting to sell it outside the EU tho.

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

Same, and honestly, that's enough for now. It already cuts out a giant portion of the footprint and I got so many other things to worry about, I can work on finding replacement cheese that isn't a joke later.

[–] girsaysdoom 10 points 1 week ago (9 children)

For real. There's a significant number of downvotes on this article even. What the hell?

[–] [email protected] 6 points 1 week ago

Clowns doing clown things. I'd recommend an instance with downvotes disabled but it's all personal preference.

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[–] [email protected] 15 points 1 week ago (1 children)

[–] [email protected] 5 points 1 week ago

We exist!

[–] [email protected] 8 points 1 week ago

cool. I guess I'm effectively vegan now so maybe I'll find some good recipes on here

[–] [email protected] 7 points 1 week ago

I’m a lurker. Vegetarian myself but my wife is vegan.

[–] [email protected] 6 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago)

People can have more than one account, so there might be overlap between these two instances.

Also, having an account on one of these two doesn't make you a vegan, just like having an account on any other instance doesn't mean you're not a vegan.

[–] [email protected] 5 points 1 week ago

If there where any more they'd have told us already.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 1 week ago

I didn't get counted so I say you have 111 vegans hehe

[–] Varyk 4 points 1 week ago (1 children)

is there any information on the User-Base by nationality?

some of us were wondering on another thread since there are so many communities in different languages, but I can't find any way to tell the ballpark nationality percentages of the users here.

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

I don’t think there is as these instances haven’t done surveys on nationality as of yet.

I have seen English, French, Swedish, Portuguese, German and Vietnamese vegan communities though.

[–] Varyk 1 points 1 week ago

I'm curious, since the federation seems a lot more geographically decentralized then reddit did.

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