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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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[–] stevedidwhat_infosec@infosec.pub 16 points 5 months ago* (last edited 5 months ago) (1 children)

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

[–] ThisIsAManWhoKnowsHowToGling@lemmy.dbzer0.com 2 points 5 months ago

Finally, someone with a brain leaves a comment.