Hey all! A male supporter has offered to open a community called WomensStuffSupporters that all genders can reply to. That gives men somewhere to show support that isn’t here and also make here easier to moderate.

There’s the option to X post from one to another, which is wouldn’t want to happen automatically as some people wouldn’t like that.

What do you all think of the idea? I’ll leave this post up for a while before a decision is made.

Edit: you can message me if you don’t want to say publicly. I won’t let people know you contacted me, I’d just potentially say someone messaged saying they did/didn’t want it

  • Greercase@lemmus.orgEnglish
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    2 days ago

    If someone wants to open a separate community, I’m not one to stand in their way, I just am not sure what the purpose would be. I feel like most things posted to that community would probably be a better fit in an ask women or general feminist community.

    My other concern would be if we’re advertising it as some kind of brother community, who is setting the rules and responsible for moderation? Here it’s easy to block people posting in bad faith (since it’s mostly men), will people over there continue to block these people? I don’t mind men chiming in elsewhere, but it would be weird to have it devolve into an “I was blocked there so I’m going to come here to say unsavory things”.

    TL;DR: I don’t mind. I have questions that don’t need to be answered but maybe are worth them thinking about, but I like that anyone can start a community on the fediverse and don’t want to restrict that. If it ends up going poorly we can just stop associating with that community.

    Much love to our mod team. Appreciate you all asking the community and appreciate the guy asking as well.