Oh yeah; I see the benefits of meme communities, but it takes a lot of work running a vegan one. During that time, I was exposed to a lot of material that I don’t wish to be any more including some really insane things like people hurting small animals on video and sending it to me. Big picture for me and vegantheoryclub.org is that I’m in my 40s and I’m looking for similar people in a similar place to bullshit with and post cooking and mutual aid online. I’m not really trawling for vegan converts. While obviously conversion and convincing are important as vegans since we are a huge minority with a moral philosophy the biggest challenge as I see it is recidivism. People fail at veganism because once they make the jump, they have nowhere else to go or to talk to, so I hope this small lemmy server for the population it ends up attracting can help them with that. I don’t see it as a tool for drawing engagement or mass numbers like the lemmy.vg person wants to do, and I definitely am done dealing with these fucking assholes who troll vegan forums who after removing their posts taunt you for weeks because they are miserable losers with no one to talk to and no social skills. To be honest I hate them.

I don’t think using a bot to copy memes is a valuable service at all. It becomes completely divorced from its context.