How to increase engagement of cis women on Lemmy?

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Are you transgender or gender diverse? Informal Survey Result: Majority of active Hexbear users say Yes and Maybe. - Lemmy
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In a poll on hexbear (see link), it was observed that there are very few cis women on Lemmy. I think this is the intersection of several problems:

  • engagement of women on Reddit was always low
  • fewer women in computer science
  • I'm hesitant to recommend anything fediversy to people who don't tinker with computers like I do and thus might need a more handholdy UX.

I gather that transgender people tend to be more into CS, though I don't see why that explains entirely such an astonishing presence of the transgender community on Hexbear.

Anyway, I just thought I'd open the floor to brainstorming.

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If you're browsing 'all' without any filters there's still a good portion of porn and porn-like content that's objectfying and thus probably repelling women.

I forgot about that side of lemmy lol. Good point.

Nsfw has to be enabled in our account for that, right?
Anime art stuff does appear, that maybe sort-of nsfw.