Shrooms - A place to discuss the growing, hunting, and the experience of magical fungi.
Shrooms - A place to discuss the growing, hunting, and the experience of magical fungi.
A new home for the Shrooms Community! All psychoactive species welcome! Discussion and Cultivation of magical fungi. No Sales Allowed.
Shrooms are becoming decriminalized and even legalized across the US now. It's a shame that the admins banned the community at all on lemmy.world. By their logic, they should also ban marijuana related communities. ItS sTiLl iLleGal!!!
Psilocybin is a very interesting and useful chemical and it is just stupid for it to be censored. What do those admins wish to accomplish? Shhhhhhh! Don't talk about something that may help with mental disorders or even PTSD. Mushroom bad!
Of all the good things that lemmy.world admins do, this is ranks as one of the dumbest and short sighted.
I will probably start COShroomGrowers. It's not illegal here and their argument becomes moot.
Huh ... funny.
Still, from lemmy.world's perspective, I can appreciate the logic. I think many were thinking that lemmy.world would be the "everything" instance. Instead, it's probably best thought of as the "vanilla" instance, which frankly makes sense. In a decentralised ecosystem, where moderation policies are allowed to be specific and don't need to bend over to try to be as expansive as possible, because any other alternative policy can be easily deployed on another instance, it makes perfect sense. It's just some were expecting something broader as a direct substitute for reddit without having to worry about the whole decentralisation thing.
Can we please avoid the eletism among cultivators in this community? For example, the uncle bens tek gets a lot of shit in the broader community even though it works well and has exposed tons of people to mycology. If it weren't for uncle bens, I wouldn't have gotten into this at all. Now I'm doing agar transfers, liquid cultures, testing different substrates and setting up to grow pans. And the beginning was frought with gatekeeping and shit talking until I found Uncle bens and /r/contamfam
We shall definitely try to avoid elitism. I personally started with uncle bens tek as well! Everyone and all their teks are welcome!
Looks like that's for the non-magical kind.
All fungi are magical ;)
The mycology community is more general in scope. Psychedelic mushrooms are not excluded, but there can be so much specialized discussion in that sub-category that is worth it having a more specialized community.
There is also the first community !uncle_bens@lemmy.ml dedicated to growing, but it is not very active.
I guess they grow the same, but as always, good luck with this community!