How to increase engagement of cis women on Lemmy? (lemmy.ml)

submitted 5 months ago by jsomae@lemmy.ml to c/asklemmy@lemmy.ml

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In a poll on hexbear (see link), it was observed that there are very few cis women on Lemmy. I think this is the intersection of several problems:

engagement of women on Reddit was always low
fewer women in computer science
I'm hesitant to recommend anything fediversy to people who don't tinker with computers like I do and thus might need a more handholdy UX.

I gather that transgender people tend to be more into CS, though I don't see why that explains entirely such an astonishing presence of the transgender community on Hexbear.

Anyway, I just thought I'd open the floor to brainstorming.

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[-] Dirk@lemmy.ml 7 points 5 months ago

What's the weird thing with open source community's fixation on sex or gender identity?

[-] lost_faith@lemmy.ca 4 points 5 months ago

Diversity? Equity? Inclusion? A non-homogeneous user base?

[-] jsomae@lemmy.ml 2 points 5 months ago

I like to believe we can reach a world where those things don't matter anymore. But I'm just pointing out that right now there's deficit of AFAB people here. I'm not saying it's necessarily the fault of the open source community, but I would like to understand why exactly this has occurred. Is that wrong?

this post was submitted on 29 May 2024

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