I’m considering closing and redirecting !askmen@lemmy.ca and !askwomen@lemmy.ca. They haven’t seen much activity in months/years. Usually, people just post in the ask/asklemmy communities and indicate which group of people they want answers from.

Here is a draft for the pinned post so far:

There currently isn’t a one to one match for the topic of this community. If you want answers from a specific group (ex. men/women), you could instead start your question with a phrase like “A question for men:”. Here are some alternative communities:

“Ask” communities (for starting a discussion):

For questions that are more specific to your situation:

Group specific communities:

Broader in topic (not necessarily questions):

If you would like to take over this community, please reach out to @admin@lemmy.ca

Do you have any thoughts? Are there other communities that should be included in the list?

!askbeehaw@beehaw.org but

    • Otter@lemmy.caOPEnglish
      3·
      14 days ago

      I’ll add it to the list, I’m not sure if I should also add a note about federation or if that will just be more confusing for new users

      • Lazycog@sopuli.xyzEnglish
        3·
        14 days ago

        Good point. You could add something less technical, like in parenthesis: (possibly available) or something.

        Then again someone could also have trouble accessing e.g the link to lemmy.ml if their instance puts predefined instance blocks to new accounts like lemmy.zip does.

        No mention at all could also be confusing. What about a general: (access to above communities depends on your own instance. Not all of them are necessarily available to your instance) ?