My friend’s on reddit a lot, uses it for support questions and reviews mostly, but got fed up with the bullshit toxicity there.

A few days ago I suggested she check out Lemmy, there’s less content, but generally fewer toxic communities and we scrolled a bit.

She checked it out, didn’t understand a meme on WomensStuff, had me ask them about it, and was so put off by their responses that was the end of lemmy for her.

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    She checked it out, didn’t understand a meme on WomensStuff, had me ask them about it, and was so put off by their responses that was the end of lemmy for her.

    You’re not even being clever here. You were banned from that community three days ago for breaking the rules. Does this “friend” live in Canada?

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    Yup. A fairly normie friend liked the idea of switching from reddit. She blithely assumed as a virulently anti trump Democrat, she was a lefty because that’s what almost all of popular discourse would have you believe. I don’t know exactly what she said or what came back at her but as she put it “I said something wrong and had a dozen people calling me a fascist, shit lib etc. Even reddit feels less crazy.”

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      That tracks, particularly for .ml communities. I don’t think it has anything to do with women, as the OP is pointing to though.

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        Oh absolutely, I didn’t catch any women’s stuff in OP’s post.

        I do realise though that even though I’m a guy I’ve sent 3 women to the fediverse and 0 guys. I think it’s because the women with whom I’m friends share more memes etc whereas the only memes from my guy buddies are in our fantasy hockey chat, and the fediverse is pretty bad for sports.

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          She checked it out, didn’t understand a meme on WomensStuff, had me ask them about it, and was so put off by their responses that was the end of lemmy for her.

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      which is nuts!

      I think that was the first time I ever interacted with Womennsstuff, but sometimes that roulette wheel does not pay out.

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        You’re pouting that we picked up on your attempt at trolling as soon as you commented in there. Don’t you have a better way to spend your time?