https://lemmy.nz/post/18610200/13255360

This user describes how most of the women-centered communities on Lemmy were shut down due to harassment of their members.

Another user adds “We need a safe space, but most of the women I know on here don’t have the time or energy to moderate it. And there’s so few of us, it feels like it’s not worth the effort anyway.”

  • Zero22xx@lemmy.blahaj.zoneEnglish
    24·
    10 days ago

    Thanks for the enlightening thread. And that puts a dampener on the enthusiasm that I was feeling for this place. Not that I should be surprised or anything.

    I might misunderstand how things work here but it sounds to me like if entire communities are getting bombed by downvotes, then it’s the various admins across instances that are allowing this to happen. And it puts a bit of a dark cloud over this place now for me.

    • Ada@lemmy.blahaj.zone
      15·
      9 days ago

      Blahaj.zone has disabled downvotes, so at least that part can’t be weaponised against folk on our instance.

      As for the rest of it, yeah, lemmy is better than reddit, but it did get a lot of users from reddit, so its still closer to reddit culture than I’d like. But, it’s also got a lot of better aspects than reddit ever did, and hopefully that trend will continue

    • pelespirit@sh.itjust.works
      10·
      10 days ago

      One of our admins was banning people if they saw you only downvoting. This place is so much better than reddit, that growing pains are fine with me.

    • SoftTeeth@lemmy.world
      5·
      9 days ago

      Another issue that’s starting to pop up in “inclusive” communities that don’t have active enough mods and admins is users had to start policing their own spaces, and then the admins get upset with the vitriol directed at the trolls and force the community to repsect the trolls and wait until the reports eventually get through.