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its their community, they can run it how they please, if it rubs you the wrong way you can feel free to make a competing space instead of simply complaining about it, but i think most will find its harder to moderate than they think, so i say having a hard stance on moderation to ensure quality for a minority is perfectly acceptable imo.
Minority?
the majority of lemmy users are male <3
Source?
there are no official numbers. but women's stuff community never reached about 800 members before migration. I'm not saying that every woman is subscribed to that comm, but if it's any indicator, women are a minority on lemmy. if we look at other communities, the two biggest communities that indicate they are for gendered groups are women's autism, and men's liberation. while they both have around the same subscriber count, the men's liberation comm has twice as many posts and frequently more comments. as for other comms that have some sort of gender distinction, for women never go about 800, whereas men's ones can each as high as 2.5k users. based off these figures, and my own experiences on lemmy as a woman, I conclude that women are a minority, or seriously unrepresented if they are more present than it appears.
Okay. But not everyone joins gendered groups, so such a conclusion is not correct.