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Lemmy's Transmasculine Problem
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this post was submitted on 07 Apr 2024
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IMO this is because Lemmy is still mostly targeted at techy/open source people. Trans women have already created their own communities/subculture in this world ('programmer socks' etc). But there's not that critical mass of trans men programmers to make a bustling community here.
Lemmy is probably also very white.
So we need more diverse topics to attract a more diverse audience. Right now, the only people signing up for Lemmy are people who have opinions about Internet protocols.
I'm not techy at all but after 8 or 9 months of lemmy I just bought an old Thinkpad and I'll be putting Linux on it when it gets here next week. Y'all are contagious lol
I wonder if other instances such as slrpnk.net would have more trans men. I hope we can figure out a way to attract non-programmers on here. Need a script that explains the concept of Lemmy in laymen's terms.
I definitely wanna do an analysis of ethnicity on here, although I'll likely need to do that on meta since it's not directly related to being trans and people are probably getting tired of all the graphs and surveys by now.
Yea I've tried plenty times already, but even tech savy ppl who don't care about privacy are hard to convince to come on lemmy. Reddit's bad reputaion doesn't help either and a lot of ppl are far too tech lazy to move over here.
I don't have an opinion about internet thingies!
How did you end up here?
Not op, but also barely know how IP works. Fuck reddit threads I agreed with during the blackout sent me here after they killed 3rd party apps. I like it here so I stayed. The simpler Linux memes are funny :)
What?
+1 - this survey is measuring existing demographics, not suitability (although if there are issues there we should definitely flag+fix them). I would expect the numbers for users signing up for Lemmy to be more similar than different.
What if we pooled a little bit of money and bought targeted ads? If 20 or 100 signups would be meaningful those numbers aren't so expensive to buy and would then give us much more direct signal on whether trans men are bouncing off the community.