I would guess that most women wouldn't feel the need to be on a woman-focused Lemmy instance for their main / only account. But, some might want an alt account to discuss certain things there.

[–] otter@lemmy.ca 34 points 5 days ago (1 children)

While this won't be the case with everyone, it was mentioned a few times in a post I made here a long while back

https://lemmy.ca/post/9443464

I’m a woman, and make no attempt to hide that fact in my posts. That said, I also don’t personally have much interest in talking about being a woman, so don’t sub to any of those places you linked.

Over on Reddit I just sort of let people assume I was male a lot of the time, since it wasn’t really relevant to what we were talking about. But from the start on Lemmy I’ve made sure to call out incorrect assumptions, downvote and give a talking to people stereotyping or being misogynistic, etc etc. And the more of us (of all genders) that make that same decision, the better things get

[–] merc@sh.itjust.works 10 points 5 days ago

That's pretty brave of you. It's a lot of work to fight people's assumptions, and I'm sure it results in harassment.

But, you're right that things will never change if women don't do that. It's a chicken and egg thing. Nobody wants to be the first to do it, because whoever's first gets harassed the most. But, if enough people do it, it won't be abnormal anymore.

Good luck, and thanks for trying to make women on the internet more normal.

[–] Die4Ever@retrolemmy.com 29 points 5 days ago (2 children)

we all know there's currently only 1 chick in the fediverse

[–] Pamasich@kbin.earth 8 points 5 days ago

There WAS 1 chick in the fediverse.

The situation took a dark turn recently.

[–] overload@sopuli.xyz 2 points 5 days ago

P in that case Nicole's DMs are the Lemmy women's sub.

[–] FaceDeer@fedia.io 20 points 5 days ago (2 children)

I don't know of any "men only" instances, the fact that it's gender-specific is niche rather than the specific gender.

[–] Tonuka@feddit.org 20 points 5 days ago

Same reason womens magazines are more popular than mens magazines and womens subreddits and websites are more popular than mens.

Maybe one day we'll have full equality and it'll be weird to think of "women's spaces" as something that's necessary. But it's very much so today.

[–] QualifiedKitten@discuss.online 10 points 5 days ago

I don't believe they actively intended to exclude anyone, but there is/was Dull Men's Club, and I believe they've recently rebranded to "Dullsters".

[–] Sixtyforce@sh.itjust.works 11 points 5 days ago* (last edited 5 days ago) (1 children)

Zero women have tried to make one so far regardless of how many would use a new instance. So it can't be all that in demand.

I think it naturally would occur if Lemmy grows in size. There's not many people here to begin with.

[–] CheeseToastie@lazysoci.al 2 points 4 days ago

There's !WomensStuff@lazysoci.al we started a little over a month ago and recently hit 1000 members

[–] Alk@sh.itjust.works 1 points 5 days ago

It's not niche being a woman obviously. What's niche is having a community exclude 50% of the population. Nothing wrong with it, but it is niche.