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Lemmy is a worse platform for women than Reddit was
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this post was submitted on 13 May 2024
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I don't believe evey meetup posts pictures of their entire groups, nor do I think there's a database for that, or that, if that database existed, it would be a good tool for assessing whether or not men are more likely to be outcasts. Reddit is only one social media site, like I said, and has a shrinking market share. Whether or not other social media platforms are conducive to conversations was never my point, it was the one-sidedness of saying men are more likely to be social outcasts. I don't think looking at a few pictures of reddit meetups proves anything.
I don't see what other outcome being socially isolated can produce...? I suppose you could be isolated but not rejected by society, but the person who comes out of that isolation is not going to be a normal person (depending on the length of isolation), and likely won't be accepted by most normal people, which would make them an outcast no?
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC10409601/ this is a recent study showing social isolation by gender and age, and it turns out after age 55 women are more likely to he isolated, so what I'm saying only applies to young and middle aged men.