It is objectively a lot more male than Reddit or other social media. Reddit has many issues, but lack of women is not one of them.
It is objectively a lot more male than Reddit or other social media. Reddit has many issues, but lack of women is not one of them.
Lemmy? the politics.
the fediverse? I know I’ve said this like a billion times to the same five people who come on here, but federated platforms still ape the format of big social media platforms, and inherit many of their pitfalls. I want long-term discussion and human connection, not an endless waterfall of content that quickly gets swept away.
I view this as a technical issue. I still feel if users have ultimate control at the account level. Something akin to trust cafe where you tank everything and you can have a view that takes those rankings into account. Then it will help people find similar things to what they want. I wish I could set a filter to not show any links or media that did not have some initial discusion. I don’t want a picture or news article dropped in my lap I want the poster to say how he saw this picture or video or article or what have you and liked it because or hated it because or whatever. When I post I try my best to provide a personal context to the whole thing.
isn’t that what discord is about? sounds like you want a chat room community.
Absolutely not. If Lemmy is a content waterfall than Discord is Niagara. What I want is a forum. But nobody uses forums anymore.
i use forums. but the average age of the userbase is like 55-60. you won’t find anyone under the age of 40 on them.