May I suggest considering what the community is supposed to be?

For example, an invite only safe space for survivors. Sharing is difficult, sharing trauma publicly perhaps more so. Should be private and invite only for survivors. Also make a mod team with governance that respects the community, up front, in writing.

If going for a forum where allies are allowed, consider the will of survivors. It's their forum. Let them decide who and what is or isn't shared, and whether open, invite or survivor invite only.

You can build 3 related communities if they choose. One for survivors, one for survivors and allies and one for survivors, allies and the public with different contributions and interactions.

I love this so much! Thank you!!

RAINN is great for resources! I pull their stats often and there's great resources there.

I'd love to see discussions about awareness and reduction. There's quite a few deeply caring and intelligent Lemmings who would treat such discussions with respect.

You will need to moderate very closely. There's a lot of users here who victim blame and push that false reporting is more damaging than actually being raped. It is imperative that those views aren't tolerated if victims are going to feel safe sharing their stories.

I'd like a list of resources in the sidebar. There are websites and organizations around the world that are founded to help rape victims and their loved ones with the issues they have to deal with.

Also resources for how to get away from abusive spouses or even abusive communities. Knowing where to go, how to build a new support network, how to get the resources to move away.

You could draft a sidebar in a post and let the community comment suggested changes to it.

Trauma aware text only, as in trigger warnings and stuff like that.

Rules in the sidebar are a good idea. 3-5 is plenty. And I would reserve one as a bit more vague, like “don’t behave like a jerk”.

The rules can evolve over time as you see the points of friction in how users behave. The jerk rule lets you ban assholes without them running screaming to the admins or one of the fediverse drama communities.

I put together a mental health crisis resource for fedi. There's a couple things I've been meaning to update but overall I'm pretty happy with it.

I don't think you need to keep the naming structure the same as Reddit, especially if you don't need to keep any official connection to the subreddit moderators and you disagree with how they ran things

If you're looking for names, perhaps "sexual assault support"? Or just "sexual assault", and ignore whatever went wrong with the subreddit

You can also link to related communities once you find ones that align with what you're trying to do. For example, !mensliberation@lemmy.ca sounds related to what you have described

I’d have parked it ANYWHERE that wasn’t .world, especially considering the fact that you’re trying to escape reddit, but it’s good that it exists nonetheless.

Over never been sexually assaulted or sexually assaulted anyone (weird "confession" I never thought I'd make), but I just wanted to say that's an awesome initiative. ❤️🤝

I prefer lemmots