I've seen another instance of a comment discussing recipes in the mega getting removed because it doesn't go "CW: meat". This has not been an established rule of the site and shouldn't be a requirement.
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The rule to nsfw and use content warnings for images of flesh was instated in the midst/wake of the vegan struggle session. It was presented as a fair measure, specifically for the food comm, to give people who might view such images as effectively gore the option to not see it. This has spread to requiring the blurring of ice cream site-wide and now apparently includes mentioning fried chicken. This is absolutely not in line with the purpose of the original policy and does not, in fact, promote the general welfare of the site.
Go ahead, reinvite Reddit mods to your own site after they chased off your actual coders. The rest of the fediverse is out there. Just because some of them are reactionaries doesn't change that you break your own site more than any instance, including Mastodons. OP is raising a serious issue, you are the one baiting.
Every unnecessary moderation policy makes it harder to police reactionaries, spam, and thing unmentionable.