everton137Feb 28

In a recent comparison of engagement around a Leave.X campaign post,[1] someone pointed out that a female journalist who is active in the feminist movement and critical of Big Tech had a very different experience than others.

The Mastodon post was shared twice, while the Bluesky version was shared over 200 times and received significantly more interactions. This raises questions about tech-savvy spaces like Mastodon and how they reflect broader societal issues.

For women on Mastodon:

Do you feel that the patriarchal dynamics and male behavior in this space, which is still largely dominated by white men, make it harder for women to participate?

#Mastodon #Diversity #Fediversity #Fediverse #Feminism #BlueSky #Inclusion

Totally agree
23.1%
Partially agree
36.1%
Partially disagree
21.3%
Totally disagree
19.5%
Poll ended at .
Show threadPetra van CronenburgFeb 28
@everton137 Feminist, journalist, woman here. I'm used to be in male-dominated spaces (I was one of the first women at a newspaper). Mastodon was such a space but it got better. The big problems here: it's very much tech people. It's difficult and takes efforts to build/find communities for other topics (mine was nature). Here's more mansplaining, reply guys, people who explain you your profession only because you are a woman. You have to be tough. And yes, we have a big problem with moderation
Show threadPetra van Cronenburg
@everton137 on some instances for helping people outside the very-white bubble, the reason why so many people left.
Also a technical problem: if I know that a post will be food for mansplainers, on Bsky I can easily close comments at any time. Here I'm confronted with the crap.
Bad on Bsky: you only get many followers, if big accounts take you on their starterpacks. Here you get followers with good content.
The Fediverse got better but there's still much to improve!
Feb 28 at 3:51pmWeb
Show threadPetra van CronenburgFeb 28
@everton137 I just heard about another problem: if people get harassed here, not all users can see it and help. The haters use mostly non-moderated instances.The one who is harassed, can read it. If you are on a well moderated instance that has perhaps defederated the bad instance, you don't notice anything. So please listen to people who say they experience hate, racism, threats etc.! If you don't see it, it doesn't mean that it doesn't exist!