"So to preface this is posted in literature.cafe’s meta community but this question is primarily aimed at generally anyone in the lemmyverse who is NOT a cisgender man no matter what instance they may be in. The purpose of this thread is to present a stage for conversation for those willing to contribute, and although cisgender men are not excluded I kindly ask you to be mindful of the fact what this thread is meant for and try to avoid talking over others here. If you are a cisgender man interested in learning and seeing how lemmy can improve like I am: welcome. For those who are here to cause issues or talk over others though, you will be promptly removed.
I do not know the demographic data of lemmy, but I would wager a large portion are male. And over the past few weeks I have witnessed women on numerous occasion discuss their discomfort on here. Reddit very much had a very “bro-y” feeling culture for many, that felt like a barrier to entry to many women. With lemmy, there’s a potential to break this. But the answer really is how? Lemmy has begun to develop into its own culture already independent of Reddit quite rapidly, and it’s been awesome to see but I am wondering if there’s a way we can push it a step further and implement ways to make the platform more welcoming to women than Reddit previously did.
Thoughts?"
I uh am a cis man. I’ve been involved in making some physical spaces safer and it was pretty much what the mods do in this nonphysical space. Kicking people out, not accepting bullshit and being accepting of minorities.
There’s no nice way to go about it and we got results with an inclusive strategy and a hard line.
Why the hell aren’t we federated with lit.cafe?
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im not fully convinced that they are truly interested in looking out for marginalized people without federating the instance that has the highest rates of them but federates shit like lemmy.world lmao. its specifically excluding the bulk of people from that conversation.
If it involves their lives changing they do not want to have an inclusive space. Liberalism profile 1,3,6,8 and 9.
They use an excuse about how we're much bigger and more active than them, but we all know the real reason.
I mean, they’re right. Adding a big active instance of people who already read and have been training in 10x earths gravity book club discussions will change the experience there.
The question is if they want an inclusive space enough to accept that change.