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"I will never suggest Lemmy to people" - 196 users on the Fediverse's harassment of women (lemmy.nz)

submitted 1 week ago by dragonfucker@lemmy.nz to c/fediverselore@lemmy.ca

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https://lemmy.nz/post/18610200/13255360

This user describes how most of the women-centered communities on Lemmy were shut down due to harassment of their members.

Another user adds "We need a safe space, but most of the women I know on here don’t have the time or energy to moderate it. And there’s so few of us, it feels like it’s not worth the effort anyway."

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[–] wingsfortheirsmiles@feddit.uk 16 points 6 days ago

Is there anything others can do to help? Feddit.uk wouldn't tolerate this but I'm not sure what a regular user can do apart from look out for harassment, call it out and report promptly

[–] kittenzrulz123@lemmy.blahaj.zone 11 points 6 days ago

Lemmy is a relatively small and niche platform, imo small platforms tend to be like that. First men show up, then transfems, and then cis women. We seem to be at the second stage and while things can be done better (like a female only instance) I do think things will get better.

[–] theacharnian@lemmy.ca 11 points 6 days ago (2 children)

In Mastodon, this is typically solved with defederation, block lists, and admins enforcing mod policies. How come this approach doesn't work for Lemmy? Is it not decentralized enough?

[–] spujb@lemmy.cafe 4 points 5 days ago

it’s not decentralized enough is exactly the answer. lemmy.world holds a huge portion of users and communities despite having middling at best moderation. illustrating this, one of my favorite communities (196) just recently tried to force everyone to migrate to .world. fortunately, the community at large openly rejected that absurd move, but it definitely exemplified the centralizing forces at play.

[–] Luffy879@lemmy.ml 6 points 6 days ago

Yes. Just look at .world. As long as world is still federated into other communities, the fediverse is not federated.

[–] WhatSay@slrpnk.net 7 points 6 days ago (1 children)

I had much more toxic behavior at reddit, but it is hard to imagine any safe space online anywhere.

[–] spujb@lemmy.cafe 4 points 5 days ago

it definitely depends where you go on all platforms. blahaj zone is good, world is bad. places moderated by mods with actual experience are generally good, places moderated by jordanlund and similar get pretty toxic pretty fast. :(

[–] SoftTeeth@lemmy.world -2 points 5 days ago (1 children)

Drag you killed blahaj, you are an extremely impressive troll.

[–] spujb@lemmy.cafe 0 points 5 days ago

Off topic drama farming. Nobody asked.

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