With the recent issues of Tea (teaforwomen.com) posting unsecured user data, it's easy to spot the heavy bias of male users in the comments. With a 90% male demographic, Lemmy will face problems related to a homogeneous user population and all the issues that come with it. Right now, it's shaping up to be misogynistic, but it could also head into other bad places. Lemmy needs to attract a more diverse population of users or will end up as another echo chamber for the like minded. https://www.similarweb.com/website/lemmy.ml/#demographics

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[–] 89 points 1 year ago (10 children)

You're talking about a specific instance Lemmy.ml which isn't even the biggest instance, but basically a tankie instance.

You should at least bring together the data of the biggest top 10 instances.

I also wonder how that website decides if I'm male or female.

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  • [–] 11 points 1 year ago (5 children)

    I'd say there's a lot bigger problems with .ml's user base than what that site is looking at too...

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  • [–] 5 points 1 year ago (4 children)

    .ml is the r/conservative of the left

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  • [–] 10 points 1 year ago (3 children)

    Not fair, conservatives show up to vote and therefore get more of their agenda done. Those tankies would leave us all for dead as long as it they keep their perceived purity.

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  • [–] -3 points 1 year ago (1 child)

    Wouldn’t a tankie instance have more women?

    Your response seems almost defensive, which is weird. Lemmy is definitely overwhelming male. That’s not an inherently bad thing, so I don’t get the defensive tone here or taking OP to task about data methods.

    Disagree all you want, but this website is incredibly male dominated. I don’t think OP needs to do a peer-reviewed, double-blind study to say so.

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