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?
Conversation ongoing over there, inviting anyone who wants to participate to please consider sharing their thoughts if they are willing to. If you wanna post in the original thread from your instance copy and paste the link into your instances search panel
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The thing with Lemmy is, that it’s a very “nerd” place. The amount of Linux and science content I see is quite a lot. Women(as from my experience) don’t care about tech or science that much. I don’t really know how to actively change this, but I think with Lemmy growing it may decrease, but I’m not to sure since its the Linux and privacy nerds who are more likely to switch to Lemmy.
I hear this a lot and while I feel that’s a contributing factor I find it difficult to believe that sexism is the only explanation for the overwhelming male dominance in tech, and both tech and science tend to lean liberal.
California has more than average because people in the big coastal cities are less likely to murder their neighbor for being trans than in a lot of other places. So people move to California.
I don’t think there are very many out trans individuals in tech given that.
The thing with Lemmy is, that it’s a very “nerd” place. The amount of Linux and science content I see is quite a lot. Women(as from my experience) don’t care about tech or science that much. I don’t really know how to actively change this, but I think with Lemmy growing it may decrease, but I’m not to sure since its the Linux and privacy nerds who are more likely to switch to Lemmy.
It’s more that women are harassed out of science and tech than that they don’t care about it.
I hear this a lot and while I feel that’s a contributing factor I find it difficult to believe that sexism is the only explanation for the overwhelming male dominance in tech, and both tech and science tend to lean liberal.
What are other contributing factors in your view?
Then why are there so many tramswomen in tech?
California has more than average because people in the big coastal cities are less likely to murder their neighbor for being trans than in a lot of other places. So people move to California.
I don’t think there are very many out trans individuals in tech given that.
Your two statements contradict each other.