(can't post link currently as their site is down again lol)
Not only did they not differentiate gender between cis and trans, it also came out that they're like 80% white and they instantly got into a struggle session because the admin said that number was "unfortunate" can't make this shit up lmao
If the website mostly appeals to Americans wouldn't it just track that the majority of users are white just like how the majority of the nation is? Is that a particularly surprising finding? How is it unfortunate?
The US isn't 80% white.
Zoomer/millennial aged people from the US who aren't frothing Christofascists definitely aren't 80% white.
right?! millenials the main age demographic here are 50% white. there is no excuse for hexbears 90% whiteness.
Well we came from Reddit
, which when outside of specific country or ethnicity/race subreddits, Reddit is like 110% white with a 10% margin of error or something like that lol. And we haven't done any specific user outreach, and the last few user outreach programs have not gone well.
Maybe with federation we can bring in more users from different backgrounds, but most Lemmy users are also Reddit refugees so I dunno.
"Hello, I would like this website to federate with another website please"
Said no non-white person ever.
They have played us for absolute fools.
___yeah i dont have high hopes for federating increasing poc users. what happened with the last outreach attempt? maybe we should try making official hexbear accounts on insta and tumblr that share memes to get people in? just an idea but maybe there is no solution until the nature of this website changes and we keep the edgelords in line.
The US is 60% white. I've always found the less than 50 percent to be dubious because they always put "hispanic/latino" as a separate race.