If users or communities don’t like it, they could, and SHOULD move to another instance.
!vegan are already going for that option, but the problem is that if your written rules do not reflect your actual practices, it's a lot like backstabbing because you invite people to build communities over time only to go back on your rules and force the users to migrate, which leads to fragmentation and a lot of members lost in the process.
What's inconsistent about that? Communities have their own rules, which often are and should be much stricter than the sitewide rules. For example, a pro-Harris community may decide to ban pro-Trump posts (or vice versa) to keep it on-topic, but that wouldn't justify a site admin removing the mods and their comments for that. Some communities exist specifically for debates, while others choose to be more of a safe space type.
I'm not a moderator of !vegan, so I can't speak on behalf of the moderators here. Either way, each community has its own rules in addition to the instance rules, so a community can be much stricter (or more subjective) than the instance, which I would expect to be more or less neutral.
For me, the purpose of the post is exactly what it asks for. I don't think I've ever posted to !vegan except for today, to cross-post the OP, but my own fate as an active lemmy.world user likely rests on the outcome of this request. I run a tiny community that has no relation to animal rights or ethics but I feel it is absolutely threatened when there are moderators like Rooki that act based on their views rather than the rules.
For one, I don't see the moderators "denying any risks". The very first one seen at the archived link and in the mod log says "There are some scammy and not nutritionally complete vegan cat foods or there, so it’s important to do a bit of extra research".
Regardless of any of that, the job of an instance moderator isn't to fight what they believe is misinformation, as that view leads to total censorship, as I already explained. What if you believe that abortion kills? Would you then go and remove moderators that say otherwise? The same question stands for the other examples provided in my OP.
When it comes to disagreements of that nature (and again, even if we assume that the science were on Rooki's side), the right course of action in my view is to make an opposing comment and make your case, then if that's unfairly removed by the community mods, create your own community (it could be another version of vegan or "anti-vegan" depending on where you stand) and use that to express the opposing views. Resorting to your admin power is completely unacceptable for a case of disagreement that is not related to a rules violation.
One was a jury trial and the other wasn't. Google had plenty of records of their internal communications but Apple had a different practice. This article by The Verge does a decent job at highlighting the differences.
Is it not obvious to you that not all governments are equal? Ukraine was invaded for no reason except for Putin's longing for the Soviet Union or the idea of an empire that can compete with the West.
The propagandists cheer for every bombing of Ukraine and say "we must do more". Tatarsky, who was killed in Saint Petersburg, even had fought in the Donbas, and there's a more recent video of him saying "let's kill and rob".
There are laws in many countries that can get you locked up for advocating for killing people or making serious threats. In war, arresting may not always be an option.
Going by this Lemmy.World chart, Rooki is an instance moderator standing below @ruud@lemmy.world and @jelloeater85@lemmy.world, so I'm appealing to them in the form of a public post so that the issue can't be swept under the rug.
!vegan are already going for that option, but the problem is that if your written rules do not reflect your actual practices, it's a lot like backstabbing because you invite people to build communities over time only to go back on your rules and force the users to migrate, which leads to fragmentation and a lot of members lost in the process.