Hi all, it seems like this post got a lot of attention, which is great!

As a moderator here, I'd like to encourage maintaining a civil and respectful attitude towards each other, particularly when disagreeing. Keeping our communities welcoming and constructive is something that I hope we all want.

Don't forget to read the rules and guidelines in the sidebar. If you spot any content that you feel breaks them, please send a report.

I wish an excellent week to you all and happy posting :)

Just be normal?!

Putting an end to those really creepy posts on All that seem to be collecting and categorizing random photos of women into name-specific communities like they were Pokemon, baseball cards, or some other collectable might not hurt.

• curate more spaces by and for women

• engage with, share and promote content from other women's online spaces and thought leadership

• implement strong mod tools

• and, to the chagrin of freedom of speech absolutists, discourage rape culture, anti-feminism casual soft-core pornography, casual misogyny and racism

Honestly seems like a better thing to ask the women of lemmy, but what has already been said seems decent to me at least

2-4mg Estradiol.

I kid, but what I really miss /r/TwoXChromosomes a good active community like that here would be great.

Not asking those questions and stop caring about the gender of people, everyone is welcome.

The appeal to join a social network is broadly the same for both men and women, human interaction.

As more people join lemmy, communities will become more active, drivibg more traffic.

For now, the biggest barrier to entry is how technical the concept is, having to explain how the federation works and how to interact with it, how to find communities, how to block communities and servers.

Compare that with how reddit did it, you join a simple site, find subreddits and quickly start posting.

On lemmy you not only need to find (and in some cases create) a community, but you need to find the right community on the right server.

Going to redheads on one server may be a community about hair care and styling of red hair, but on a different server it is just porn.

This sometimes confusing nature of Lemmy is good for redundancy and information preservation, but bad for finding the right community to post in.

I’d say start by limiting the Linux to the (many) Linux communities and not general ones like memes