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
- Iβm hesitant to recommend anything fediversy to people who donβt 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 donβt see why that explains entirely such an astonishing presence of the transgender community on Hexbear.
Anyway, I just thought Iβd open the floor to brainstorming.
Whatβs the weird thing with open source communityβs fixation on sex or gender identity?
I like to believe we can reach a world where those things donβt matter anymore. But Iβm just pointing out that right now thereβs deficit of AFAB people here. Iβm not saying itβs necessarily the fault of the open source community, but I would like to understand why exactly this has occurred. Is that wrong?
