With more people joining Lemmy and other decentralised networks there is a growing shift to the common misogyny and sexism we find on other social media networks (YouTube, Reddit, etc.).
I think it’s pretty obvious that the reason is that there are even less women here than other places online. What are your ideas on how to change that? Or do you feel it is a lost cause?
I think it would be better if there was an option to opt out of appearing in all when you post something. It seems like certain communities/posts get down voted by people finding them in all. And this IMO presents a chilling effect on those communities/posts.
For example another user in this thread mentioned a post about women only ride-sharing and there being hostility towards the concept by men from all.
Women or any other group of people won’t want to join Lemmy if there isn’t spaces that contain content that interests them.
I know, some people downvote(d) every post in the community I mod.
Misogynist posts are also fine, apparently. Like a “Fuck, Marry, Kill” post with three female characters from Star Trek. (Not sure if I am allowed to link to it.) Interim it had over 50 upvotes. And people in the comments seem to participate “in the fun”. It’s great it got downvoted so hard in the end and I am not for banning or deleting such posts per se. It just gives me pause to think that people feel okay to make them in the first place.
Definitely. For example there are very few hobby communities that aren’t tech focused. My concern is that hostility will build up more and because of that the communities won’t grow in the first place. And also what is a good way to promote Lemmy to a more diverse group of people.
I saw that fmk post on Risa and I was mildly shocked. Even for lulz it’s pretty bottom-of-the-barrel humor
The optimist in me thinks that Lemmy might be just copying the growth of Reddit. Reddit used to be similar to modern Lemmy (read: just a bunch of programmers/early adopters) but eventually got a broader appeal and tons of hobby communities got popular.