Hi, I’m u/MayaFey_ from reddit, I am on the mod team of /r/badwomensanatomy.
We were part of the failed protest, and frankly we’re done with spez. We’re leaving. We have a poll on our subreddit to choose between lemmy, discord, and raddle, and lemmy is winning by a large margin so far.
So if lemmy wins, the question will present itself… which instance will we move to? As a mod team, we’d prefer an instance with open registration to lower friction for our reddit members making the transition. And we’re also looking for a place that is not accepting of misogyny or violence against women. This is me sending out feelers to figure out which instances would be a best fit and most accepting of our community.
Some details about us:
Badwomensanatomy is a community about… bad women’s anatomy. Users will reproduce images they found elsewhere (like, a snip of a facebook post, or something from a poorly drawn manga, for example) that state incorrect ideas about anatomy or incorrect depictions of anatomy. Sometimes these posts can be NSFW, or misogynistic, but the idea behind the community is we call these things out and discuss the ways they are ill-conceived and what the correct anatomy is.
Our sub is very pro-queer and pro-trans, and not tolerant of terfs at all. Though it doesn’t specifically relate to queerness or transness, so I’m not sure how good of a fit it will be.
So far, about 40 users have responded to our poll and it’s been 5 hours. Our sub has over 500k subs, but being realistic, only a few dozen or a hundred at most will make the jump. That said, that’s still a lot of users given how small lemmy is at this time.
If you’re receptive to this migration, and the poll confirms the community’s choice to go to lemmy, we can create a community here and start migrating. As a representative of the mod team, I am willing to chip in to the running costs of this instance to compensate for the increase burden.
Let me know what you think.
I strongly suggest beehaw.org or kbin.social
Beehaw is a cool community but they don’t allow user created communities yet and the sign up process will be a lot more work than most users are expecting.
I don’t know about that. They don’t expect you to write an essay, just a brief introduction to demonstrate that you’re not a bot or a troll.
I second Kbin
Beehaw seems chill but last I checked they were manually approving new users slowly, so it might be a large barrier for people migrating.
Although they could probably also just sign up for another instance and then subscribe to it? But that’s still additional steps.
Beehaw’s admins are notoriously awful. They hate dissent and anyone questioning them. Well before the blackout, they literally had a “no sources” rule because users kept questioning the mods. Likewise their current “rule set” states what they say, goes, and that everything is up to them, not the rules. They say that with all cases (except obvious trolls), that they will always warn first. I have yet to ever see any kind of warning from any of their admins.
They were being questioned on sh.it and on lemmy.world, so they blocked both. You can check their modlog to see just how little spam they have to deal with.
You can also pop in to look at their discord to see how much they dislike the criticism.