A place for those who are breastfeeding (and those who aren’t but would like to learn more, all are welcome!)
A place to swap stories, pics, tips, ask questions and find support for this beautiful, but often challenging, journey that mamas around the world embark on.
A place to post new communities all over Lemmy for discovery and promotion.
The rules for behavior are a straight carry over of Mastodon.World's rules. You can click the link but we've reposted them here in brief, as a guideline. We will continue to use the Mastodon.World rules as the master list. Over all, be nice to each other and remember this isn't a community built around debate. For the rules about formatting your posts, scroll down to number 2.
1. Follow the rules of Mastodon.world, which can be found here.
A. Provide an inclusive and supportive environment. This means if it isn't rulebreaking and we can't be supportive to them then we probably shouldn't engage.
B. No illegal content.
C. Use content warnings where appropriate. This means mark your submissions NSFW if need be.
D. No uncivil behavior. This includes, but is not limited to: Name Calling; Bullying; Trolling; Disruptive Commenting; or Personal Criticisms.
E. No Harrassment. As an example in relation to Transgender people this includes, deadnaming, misgendering, and promotion of conversion therapy. Similarly Misogyny, Misandry, and Racism are also banned here.
2. Include a community title and description in your post title. - A following example of this would be New Communities - A place to post new communities all over Lemmy for discovery and promotion.
3. Follow the formatting. - The formatting as included below is important for people getting universal links across Lemmy as easily as possible.
Please include this following format in your post:
[link text](/c/community@instance.com)
This provides a link that should work across instances, but in some cases it won't
You should also include either:
or instance.com/c/community
Q: Why do I get a 404?
A: At least one user in an instance needs to search for a community before it gets fetched. Searching for the community will bring it into the instance and it will fetch a few of the most recent posts without comments. If a user is subscribed to a community, then all of the future posts and interactions are now in-sync.
Q: When I try to create a post, the circle just spins forever. Why is that?
A: This is a current known issue with large communities. Sometimes it does get posted, but just continues spinning, but sometimes it doesn't get posted and continues spinning. If it doesn't actually get posted, the best thing to do is try later. However, only some people seem to be having this problem at the moment.
Image Attribution:
Fahmi, CC BY 4.0 https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0, via Wikimedia Commons>>
This is awesome! I miss the many parenting subreddits I used to visit! I think allowing or encouraging pics is a recipe for disaster though…
On the contrary I think pics will help to normalise breastfeeding and show that it’s simply a baby feeding, it’s natural and not anything else to be ogled at. I previously used r/breastfeeding and they had plenty of pics, though I suspect good moderation was needed to keep that successful :)
I remember a comment in one of the reddit migration threads in the fediverse from one of r/breastfeeding's mods about the expected fallout from Reddit's fucking with mod tools (which is why I clicked on this post to begin with, breastfeeding isn't a topic I'm interested in). Apparently very good moderation was needed and Reddit's fuckery was expected to make it impossible to maintain that.
Given that lemmy's moderation tools are currently at vanilla Reddit's level at best, if not worse, you're going to need some luck (and might be better situated at beehaw, which prioritises being a safe space and defederated with lemmy.world because trolls were able to just make a new lemmy.world account when banned from beehaw communities and no less extreme but adequate moderation tools were available).
Thank you so much for your thoughtful comment, it’s certainly given me a lot to consider. I suppose it’s deciding now whether to be in the safer space or have the outreach to be visible to more people who need the support. I might be wrong but I’m assuming that Lemmy users currently don’t have a huge percentage of women who are child rearing at the moment. But then again, I’m here, so who knows. :)