Seen a lot of posts on Lemmy with vegan-adjacent sentiments but the comments are typically very critical of vegan ideas, even when they don’t come from vegans themselves. Why is this topic in particular so polarising on the internet? Especially since unlike politics for example, it seems like people don’t really get upset by it IRL
Might be an exposure thing. If you’re vegan and you go online for the explicit purpose of talking about veganism to sttangers, you’re going to attract haters. That goes for anything. Politics, veganism, parenting, car enthousiasts, movie fandoms, etc…
If you keep to your own, you won’t experience the same hate.
I’m not saying you should hide your opinions, but you should mind the context in which you out them. Also, just brush it off, don’t let others define you.