Are you transgender or gender diverse? Informal Survey Result: Majority of active Hexbear users say Yes and Maybe. - Lemmy
lemmy.mlcross-posted from: https://lemmy.ml/post/16131303
[https://lemmy.ml/post/16131303] > Dug up their survey for it out of curiosity,
you can find their original post here https://hexbear.net/post/2226865
[https://hexbear.net/post/2226865] > > Interesting note on cis women
https://hexbear.net/comment/4782033 [https://hexbear.net/comment/4782033]
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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Ok, ladies: Would you rather out yourself as a woman online, or spend the night in the woods with a bear?
Anyone thinking that lemmy is a welcoming space to women should read through that thread first.
Edit: the current state of Lemmy and the fediverse reminds me heavily of early reddit, for better and for worse. You can curate some pretty supportive communities if you are careful picking them out, they remain well moderated, etc. But there are plenty of places where you’ll get scummy content if you wander or if posts attract too much attention.
Here’s the problem. This is the internet.
These are locally run and often volunteer based instances.
Anyone can spawn any amount of accounts and run their instance however they’d like, giving lots of trolls neat little nooks to hide in.
You’re expecting to get real results? How did you account for multiple votes? How are you even sure that the data from the polls if unique, is accurate?
Garbage in. Garbage out. People will use Lemmy if they want to. End of story. Idk why everyone is so obsessed with inflating user counts
I think I would swap all usage of “Lemmy” for “Hexbear” in the OP as that instance is not an accurate representation of the whole of Lemmy. Perhaps choosing one of the general Lemmy instances would give a more accurate representation.
i don’t think hexbear is a good sample group for the average lemmy user nor representative of lemmy users a whole. you might do better sampling lemmy.world, or assembling a meta poll from the top 5 or top 10 instances.
I’m a Cis woman on Lemmy. I don’t know what the fuck “hexbear” is. I didn’t vote. Thank you.
There’s a reason that your instance (and others) has defederated from hexbear.