Lemmy has a problem
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With the recent issues of Tea (teaforwomen.com) posting unsecured user data, it's easy to spot the heavy bias of male users in the comments.
With a 90% male demographic, Lemmy will face problems related to a homogeneous user population and all the issues that come with it. Right now, it's shaping up to be misogynistic, but it could also head into other bad places. Lemmy needs to attract a more diverse population of users or will end up as another echo chamber for the like minded.
https://www.similarweb.com/website/lemmy.ml/#demographicsIn addition to the issues others have pointed out, reddit was like this back in the day too. It's not that weird, even if it is true.
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I think the demographic for lemmy (and lemmy.ml in particular) is so niche and so biased towards privacy that even with a bigger sample, it's next to impossible to get really good data. Probably good enough to say that it's very likely that there's a significantly skewed gender distribution, though. The user polls that were done on my instance showed similar results IIRC.
Agreed on both counts!
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With the recent issues of Tea (teaforwomen.com) posting unsecured user data, it's easy to spot the heavy bias of male users in the comments.
With a 90% male demographic, Lemmy will face problems related to a homogeneous user population and all the issues that come with it. Right now, it's shaping up to be misogynistic, but it could also head into other bad places. Lemmy needs to attract a more diverse population of users or will end up as another echo chamber for the like minded.
https://www.similarweb.com/website/lemmy.ml/#demographicsIf you think about it, it kinda makes sense. The fediverse is not a safe place for women especially not the average normie women, due to the fediverse's very public nature of things and general inability to really delete anything.
Reddit can detect and deal with stalkers, you can make your profile more private. Lemmy can't do a whole lot when every instance is firehosing all the data in realtime to everyone's servers. It's a scary amount of data I have in my local Postgres database: everyone's every vote, comments, tied to a profile, with accurate timestamps and all.
If they use an instance without the image proxying, I can also potentially trick them into loading an image from my server and collect IP addresses and correlate to a user via vote timing, and then use GeoIP to get a location.
Lemmy's also very appealing to those that can't stop getting themselves banned from elsewhere as some instances are very friendly to unlimited free speech and gross behaviour. I don't have data to back this claim, but I feel like there's definitely a correlation with those kinds of people and women not feeling safe around them.
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With the recent issues of Tea (teaforwomen.com) posting unsecured user data, it's easy to spot the heavy bias of male users in the comments.
With a 90% male demographic, Lemmy will face problems related to a homogeneous user population and all the issues that come with it. Right now, it's shaping up to be misogynistic, but it could also head into other bad places. Lemmy needs to attract a more diverse population of users or will end up as another echo chamber for the like minded.
https://www.similarweb.com/website/lemmy.ml/#demographics_
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I believe similarweb tracks web usage of thousands of validated users (i.e. they know their demographic profile) and they extrapolate on a per site basis form there.
Meaning, guesswork?
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Marx said democracy is a tool for the bourgeois /s
And yet the tankies argue DPRK and CCP are democracies...
Still, minimizing harm is helpful to growing our progressive movements.
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Meaning, guesswork?
We call it statistics around these parts. But yeah, it's guesswork.
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We call it statistics around these parts. But yeah, it's guesswork.
Statistics is to guesswork what data is to anecdotes.
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With the recent issues of Tea (teaforwomen.com) posting unsecured user data, it's easy to spot the heavy bias of male users in the comments.
With a 90% male demographic, Lemmy will face problems related to a homogeneous user population and all the issues that come with it. Right now, it's shaping up to be misogynistic, but it could also head into other bad places. Lemmy needs to attract a more diverse population of users or will end up as another echo chamber for the like minded.
https://www.similarweb.com/website/lemmy.ml/#demographicsLemmy mainly attracts nerds and people into niche technology, which is already predominantly composed of men, so yeah, obviously
Doesn't mean it will be misogynistic. People just don't need to act like assholes and we'll be good
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How do you track gender category when it is not listed or asked anywhere on the forums?
We made it the fuck up obviously. Everything on the internet is true anyways
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