I don’t see a reason to deny men from participating.
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Owlboi@lemm.ee 6 days ago
how would they stop men from participating?
tfm@europe.pub 6 days ago
AdrianTheFrog@lemmy.world 6 days ago
Blahaj.zone is an instance aimed at queer people, but it doesn’t have to prevent non-queer people from participating. I would imagine an instance aimed at women to be similar.
ThrowawayPermanente@sh.itjust.works 6 days ago
Just make it obvious that it’s meant for women and most men will exclude themselves
gamermanh@lemmy.dbzer0.com 5 days ago
On a public forum?
Lol you wish
ThrowawayPermanente@sh.itjust.works 5 days ago
It works at bars, play music made by women and the Nazis will find another place to sieg heil each other without even being to be told
stoy@lemmy.zip 6 days ago
There is no resonable way to do that.
The only way I could see it being done while perserving some kind of anonymity would be to have a defederated instance, where members are invite-only, where members can invite their friends to join, there by verifying that there are no men joining.
Unfortunately, there is no good way of verifying the gender of a person that you don’t meet outside of a forum.
Whats_your_reasoning@lemmy.world 5 days ago
I’ve mentioned this before in other threads that seek a women-centric Lemmy option, but there was at least one secret community on Reddit like that. Invitees’ post histories were vetted before an invite was sent, both to find women specifically, but also to prevent trolls.
I don’t know exactly how they did it, all I know is that I got an invite one day and found the most open, comforting community I’d ever seen online. It was a place where we could talk about anything from silly stories that made us smile, to complaining about specific issues with bras, all without fear of trolls hijacking the thread, or turning an ordinary thing for us into something sexual.
I miss it.
stoy@lemmy.zip 5 days ago
Sounds fantastic, I hope that you can find a community like that again.
Vetting the post history is probably the only realistic way of doing it, it is time consuming, I am sad that it is needed, but if that is what it it takes it is at least doable.
I wish you and all women online good luck in finding a community like that, everyone needs a good community to enjoy!
KillingTimeItself@lemmy.dbzer0.com 5 days ago
ban the rowdy ones lmao
Tonuka@feddit.org 6 days ago
Why should they want to do that? That’s not how most sites for women work!