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It is objectively a lot more male than Reddit or other social media. Reddit has many issues, but lack of women is not one of them.

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[–] CodenameDarlen@lemmy.world 118 points 1 week ago (3 children)

This is like an echo champer of tech people, hard to find non-tech aware people here.

[–] lordnikon@lemmy.world 57 points 1 week ago (1 children)

That was reddit when it first started it just takes time the problem is reddit people want to speed run this and created a bunch of communities then abandoned them or filled them with AI Slop. Only making it harder for stuff to grow organically. I do wish Lemmy and Piefed had a network global name space for communities like how IRC does channels.

[–] JohnnyEnzyme@piefed.social 6 points 1 week ago

it just takes time

It takes more than just that, though. Reddit's UI and mod tools are more powerful, and the Fediverse as both a concept and a practical entity are more demanding and trickier to understand and use.

[–] sveltecider@lemmy.ca 13 points 1 week ago

Agree. I like tech and I’m subscribed to tech communities. But not a whole lot other than that here.

[–] PapaStevesy@lemmy.world 3 points 1 week ago (1 children)

We're here, we're just self-aware enough not to make it too obvious. I just don't even interact with half the content in all because I have no fucking clue what a "distro" is, is it like a mix between a disco and a bistro? Sounds fucking awesome actually, I'm in.

[–] chaosCruiser@futurology.today 2 points 1 week ago (1 children)

Skip the “all” feed. It’s not interesting to me either, even though I’m familiar with distros and such. I just read the “subscribed” where I’ll find stuff I care about.

[–] PapaStevesy@lemmy.world 2 points 1 week ago (1 children)

There's just not enough content. I come here to doom-scroll and troll trolls, it's much harder to do that when most of the communities I'm actually interested in are nearly inactive or don't exist at all.

[–] chaosCruiser@futurology.today 1 points 1 week ago

Yeah, that's a real problem. All the really interesting special communities get like 1 post a week at most.