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  • Also Redditors: "Hmmm I wonder why no women's spaces are thriving on Lemmy."

    I like the sentiment of this post but let's not forget that the buff, cool fedi users also seemingly downvoted women-oriented communities out of existence here. Not even WitchesvsPatriarchy survived. And let's not forget that the reason downvotes are disabled on Blåhaj is because the buff, cool fedi users just couldn't help themselves with downvote brigading there too.

    I'm saying this as a simple user that just wants a platform to exist on, I don't think most people give a shit who owns or is running the platform as long as it seems like a place where they'll have a good time. Users make the platform, not anything else. So when people are shopping around for their next social media space, they're looking more at what the users are posting and doing than the infrastructure or CEO.

    To this day I haven't tried Discord beyond a single conversation I was having with someone I met on Reddit at one point. But maybe women feel more at home there and maybe there's more cool stuff for random users to look at there right now. And it's probably just that simple.

    Technical specifications aren't going to be winning more users. Content is.

    • You were not here during the "man or bear" discussions. Those did not paint the platform in a good light

      • Omg, I can just imagine and I'm glad that I wasn't here. Probably wouldn't have been able to keep my mouth shut and would probably be banned from a bunch of places by now. Especially world communities, I get the impression those moderators would've been very busy making sure no men's feelings were hurt.

        It makes me think that there's a lot more teens and early 20 somethings on this platform than I thought. Because on Reddit, the majority of the "man or bear" stuff that I saw was through screenshots in feminist subs. And I got the impression that the people who were freaking out the most about it were teenagers and grown men that can't think for themselves who treat the words of people like Rogan as gospel. And I don't see too many Rogan fans around here.

        Honestly, now that I think about it, that would make sense and explain a couple of little annoyances I've had here on this platform.

  • I kinda get it. Money usually equals a degree of stability of service. And people value that when switching from something they considered stable.

    You gotta realize, some of the people that wanted to leave reddit in 23 and heard about lemmy, they asked some version of "but what if the person running the instance closes it?". They don't see the equivalence that if reddit was essentially shutting down parts of its service, that it was no better. Or that it doesn't really matter because you just switch to a new instance if you can't run your own. Nobody should be relying on a third party as their sole repository of whatever it is that they want to preserve in that regard either.

    So, I get it. Discord is rarely down, and never for long. It's ubiquitous. It isn't anything like the kind of threaded forum reddit and lemmy are, but that's not necessarily the primary goal of everyone that uses them.

    • A few months after Rexodus, Kbin.social shut down, and even before that dmv.social running Lemmy software did as well, due to the waves of CSAM (just prior to the automated protections) - here is their goodbye message. For non-technical people especially, it can be really worrisome to potentially lose out on everything that they have built when a server chooses to go down.

      • Yup, that's why we guide them to better practices, or try to. Back-up, back-up back-up.

        It's a legit concern, but one with a legit solution.

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