Thom HolwerdaJun 27, 2023

When you listen to The Verge's podcast and they're legitimately saying Mastodon is a "no girls allowed" club? And we don't want Facebook here because Instagram will bring women here?!

What the fuck is wrong with these American tech pundits? Mastodon is the gayest, transest, most feminine social network I've ever seen. There are so many more outspoken, smart, odd, and downright weird women here than I've ever seen on any other social network. It's fucking great.

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@thomholwerda I could say more about this, but I think the replies are doing a fine job and I'm too tired lol. I'm just curious, were they casting this in a negative or positive light? I'm ready to obliterate my initial perception of their podcast (seeing as I had not heard of it before this, it's already pretty low in my mind)
Jun 27, 2023 at 12:45pmWeb
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@thomholwerda by the way, as much as I know this is completely false, it still kind of stings and makes me feel like I'm in the wrong place. I wish I knew what led them to say that... I guess joining in a male-heavy region and never expanding their follower bubbles?
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@thomholwerda also fuck them for giving "dominant" males the impression they can join here and make a masculine-only space, and making potentially interested women feel they will be unwelcome. By characterising a platform as wholly something, especially one as diverse as the fediverse/mastodon, _especially_ with cursory research, you only skew the platform further in that direction. I hope whichever males join here with that intent quickly find themselves ousted and left to fester in their own little unhealthy space.