Got ya thanks!

Alright, went looking for active versions of the communities listed in that post.

• !girlgamers@lemmy.world exists but is very dead
• !sanrio_kawaii@lemmy.ml, but a lot of people have issues with lemmy.ml. I try to avoid it personally.
• There are several Animal Crossing communities. The most recently active one I found is: !acnh@lemmy.world. There is also !animal_crossing@lemmy.world and !animalcrossing@lemmy.world, both dead. There are a few more but with nowhere near as big a following.
• And of course, !otomegames@ani.social, active, run by me (games about romancing dudes, aimed at women, community also currently allows amare games which are romance games aimed at a more diverse audience due to how they can overlap and how tiny Fedi is for otome and amare)

I also submit some communities for interests traditionally considered feminine, though I realize not all women would participate in these and other genders participate too. All are active unless mentioned otherwise.

• !crochet@lemmy.ca
• !knitting@lemmy.world
• !lemmy_stitch@sh.itjust.works
• !bistitchual@sh.itjust.works
• !52weeksofbaking@lemmy.world is now dead and looking for someone to take it over
• !journaling@sh.itjust.works
• !infinitynikki@discuss.tchncs.de (open-world gacha game explicitly aimed at women)
• !otomeisekai@lemmy.world (manga genre aimed at women where someone gets transported from the real world into that of a stereotypical otome game—not actually a great representation of otome games, we don't have villainesses trying to get in the way of your romance usually and we aren't always in medieval fantasy settings, but still enjoyable to this otome player. Very dead, might gain some activity soon)

If women post about these things here I highly encourage them to crosspost to the hobby community too. I am definitely not the only woman who isn't following this community. I don't plan to engage here aside from these two comments. (Nothing against you or other women, I don't hold "there is no patriarchy" beliefs, but this community does allow discussion on more depressing topics than I want to engage with on my online funtime, such as patriarchy and probably sexism.) I hope this proves a fruitful and fun place for the women who do subscribe to the community :) good luck!

Good luck with this community, it looks really promising!

Does this extend to reading/joining the community without posting liking etc. As well or is reading okay?

I know one can't really enforce this but I would like to respect it if you say men shouldnt be here and read.

of course, thank you for the kind answer 😁 hope to see things take off here

I wonder if an /r/AskWomen type community would work for a place for men who wish to participate?