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[–] [S] 86 points 10 hours ago* (4 children)

Misogyny is rife on Lemmy.

Post about feminism or women’s issues in LW communities and you see so many misogynists crawl out of the septic tank to have their say.

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  • [–] [S] 75 points 9 hours ago* (last edited 7 hours ago) (3 children)

    I'll never forget how many men here were (and still are) butthurt about the man vs bear thing, writing 5000-word essays on how judgmental and stupid women are for choosing the bear.

    Or when the Tea app (the app where women could anonymously discuss about men they dated so they could warn others if there's any danger/red flag) was breached and the women in there was doxxed, the general sentiment here was "they deserved it bc they shittalk about men." This one was particularly funny bc usually Lemmy's all about privacy and security, except when the bad, bad women are the victims I guess!

    Or how one day ago, there was a post about why women gave out fake numbers and many of the comments agreeing, but some men still came in to say that the post was "rage bait."

    And if we point it out, we "are sexists" and "make feminism look bad" ☺️ Fun!

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  • [–] [S] 13 points 4 hours ago (1 child)

    Bears are predictable. Men are not. The "men" are more than likely offended that someone would choose risking it with a bear than a random man (them).

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  • [–] [S] 12 points 4 hours ago

    The “men” are more than likely offended that someone would choose risking it with a bear than a random man (them).

    And instead of being inquisitive or empathetic about WHY women would choose a bear over a man, they blame women for being scared of men.

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  • [–] [S] 29 points 9 hours ago (3 children)

    LW? Is that lemmy.world?

    My finger frequently finds itself hovering over the "block entire instance" button for that site, and a few others.

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  • [–] [S] 11 points 7 hours ago (1 child)

    Oh where is that button? I think I want to experience my online bubble without .world. There's enough to keep me busy in the real world and I'm curious how it would change my lemmy experience. The last influx of reddit refugees has made lemmy a bit too reddity I think.

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  • [–] [S] 11 points 6 hours ago* (1 child)

    I use the default lemmy-ui on desktop so this won't help if you use an app or something.

    Click your display name in the top right, select settings, select the "Blocks" tab, scroll down to "Block instance" and type lemmy.world in the box, and then watch your lemmy experience improve tenfold.

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  • [–] [S] 5 points 9 hours ago (1 child)

    It can be a meh instance sometimes, but I'm yet to find another offering an old.reddit style UI.

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  • [–] [S] 9 points 8 hours ago

    I don't use reddit so I've never had an attachment to any generation of its UI. I just look at the kinds of people (including the manchild that just popped in here to brag about how he was about to get instabanned) on that instance and start doing some statistical calculus and ... the finger hovers.

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  • [–] [S] 14 points 4 hours ago (1 child)

    I think it's getting worse, but even my first post on Beehaw after the API exodus was followed by a big list of how I was doing everything wrong because I'm a woman.

    That put me off Lemmy for a long time

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  • [–] [S] 13 points 3 hours ago (1 child)

    So many on the Fediverse have this adverse reaction to defederation, but I think we’re reaching the point where instances need to start being more selective and cutting off those who don’t take serious effort to curb this behaviour in their userbase.

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