In our removal announcement, we stated that we will continue to look into this more in detail, and re-allow these communities if and when we deem it safe. It was a solid concern at the time, because we were already receiving takedown requests as well as constant attacks, and didn't want to put our volunteer team at risk. We had zero measures in place, and the tools we had were insufficient to deal with anything at scale.

Well, after back and forth with some very cool people, and starting to have proper measures as well as tooling to protect ourselves, we decided it's time to welcome these communities back again. Long live the IT nerds!

We know it's been a rough ride with everything, and we'd like to thank every one of you who were understanding of us, and stayed with us all the way. Please know that as users, you are what makes this platform what it is, and damned we be if we ever forget it.

With love, and as always, stay safe in the high seas!

Lemmy.world Team

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[–] Smokeydope@lemmy.world 82 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (4 children)

Now please unremove the shroom community as next priority. Empowering open minded people with the option and knowledge to heal themselves through the use of psychadelics (and other kinds of mushrooms that can potentially help fight diseases such as cancer) that they can grow themselves without big pharma and giving them a community to share their advice+experiences is the right thing to do.

[–] drmoose@lemmy.world 30 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Since its Lemmy world its a weird indeed. Mushrooms are not even illegal in like 1/3rd of the world countries and decriminalized/not enforced in the other 3rd. Pretty interesting wiki read actually https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Legal_status_of_psilocybin_mushrooms

Any context why it was blocked?

[–] WaxedWookie@lemmy.world 15 points 1 year ago (1 children)

There's been a few poisonings lately, including half a dozen people in Australia about 2 months back that may have contributed... orrrr it might just be US law and broad optics.

[–] drmoose@lemmy.world 13 points 1 year ago (3 children)

I'm not sure the mushrooms used in thr Australian case were magic mushrooms. That'd be more about mycology rather than magic mushrooms we're talking about. Either way banning doesn't make much sense.

[–] Peregrinus@lemmy.world 13 points 1 year ago (1 children)

correct, am Australian. The mushrooms are called death cap here which are poisonous. they were used in a mea and it's suspected to be a deliberate poisoning. nothing recreational or accidental here, just the same usual shit that can kill you in Australia :)

[–] WaxedWookie@lemmy.world 4 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Oh - they definitely weren't magic mushrooms, but people will definitely overlay the general danger of amateur mycology over the risk and (US) illegality over the magic mushrooms.

[–] MxM111@lemmy.world 4 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Next thing we should block any car community. Cars kill people.

[–] cyberpunk007@lemmy.world 2 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

Gee if only I knew a place where I could learn more about this.

[–] pete_the_cat@lemmy.world 13 points 1 year ago (1 children)

I spoke with 4 therapists about issues I had, they didn't help. Microdosing LSD for about a month did wonders though.

[–] cyberpunk007@lemmy.world 3 points 1 year ago (1 children)

I can echo this statement for a couple people I know that found this to work for them too

[–] pete_the_cat@lemmy.world 3 points 1 year ago

They're really interesting substances with useful properties, but we know so little about them.

[–] cyberpunk007@lemmy.world 5 points 1 year ago

This is weird to me. What's the reasoning for that? We're people selling crap on there or something? If it's just discussion I really do not see the problem.

[–] ysjet@lemmy.world 1 points 1 year ago (1 children)

If you want people to take your hobby seriously, drop the cult language. Seriously, healing yourself? Fighting cancer?

Come on now, next you're going to try to sell me crystals that absorb bad vibes or something.

[–] Smokeydope@lemmy.world 0 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (2 children)

This reads as bait to me. You can see multiple peoples testimonies in the replies confirming that psychedelics succeeded in helping them or those they personally know, where repeated conventional therapy failed them. The long term repairing improvement of a persons mental and spiritual well-being also counts as 'healing' to me as well as many other people.

In the off chance you are genuinely interested in the 'helps fight disease such as cancer' claim, here is a ted talk by a professional mycologist. Its about mushrooms improving the human immune system. At the end he shares the very personal story of his elderly mother developing stage 4 breast cancer basically being told she was too old for conventional treatments and was done for. Only for her to make a full recovery after taking a few medications along with turkey tail mushrooms. You can skip to 9:00 to hear the story.

Fantastic Fungi is a good documentary on netflix if you would like to learn more, very well made and accessible to the common person IMO

Thats all I have to say. I hope you are open minded and learn something new if you decide to check out the ted talk and documentary. If you think its all snake oil BS anyways there probably isn't much I can say to sway your opinion. Hope you have a good one.

[–] ysjet@lemmy.world 1 points 1 year ago

My opposition was not in regards to the contents of what they said, but rather in how they said it.

Not a single person unaware of psychedelics would ever take that sort of language seriously. As I said, they need to drop the cult language, the anti-science language, and explain things in a way people would at least consider- much like you did.

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