Greetings, Kbinners (and anyone else from the 'verse who might be reading this). Back on the platform most of us migrated from, there was/is a subreddit called r/menslib, which was like r/mensrights minus the misogyny and shitting on marginalized groups and minorities. Those of you who subbed will remember it was a great place to chat about mental health, gender roles, societal expectations, toxic masculinity, things like that.
So far, I’ve not been able to find its equivalent in the fediverse. Here on Kbin, there’s m/men, but that basically mirrors the old mensrights sub. It’s gross. I found https://lemmy.ca/c/mensliberation in lemmy.ca, but that community is small (9 members) and inactive. I used Kbin’s magazine/community search and only found those two; I then tried Google, came up with no leads and figured either my Google fu just sucks or their algorithm is getting worse (likely both), so I tried duckduckgo and still found nothing. Pretty much everything I found that is even remotely related is from people looking for the same thing or is a post or comment on Reddit itself.
Is there a place out there like the old menslib? I mean, there must be, right? Help me, fediversers. You’re my only hope.
Edit: I have been banned from m/men. I mean, that’s fine, I wouldn’t fit in there anyway, because I don’t think men are the ones being oppressed.
If nothing else, why not create such a space yourself? Sure it might be slow at first, but if you post regularly, you might get like minded people engaging in your community. Either that or frequently contribute to the small communities you’re finding. What separates a lot of the popular communities from the quiet ones are the power users. @simple practically carries lotrmemes to the front page daily.
@Roundcat and @Sam_uk Y’know, I would, but I don’t have the time or energy to mod a community like that. I’ve done that before in large active communities prone to trolling attacks, and it is a metric shit ton ton of work… and a thankless job too. And yeah, some others said this one like this in particular would be a shit show to moderate, which yeah, is true. I mean, FFS I got harassed by someone in the comments of this very post…by someone from lemmy.world! I mean, I’m just talking about the idea of the existence of a community like this, and this random tool wandered in and told me to go hang myself. I checked their profile, and earlier they called someone a f*g in a lemmy thread.
I’d love to start a community like that, I really would. Honestly, I bet it would be real rewarding to curate a space like that. But I don’t have the energy for it, especially dealing with all the unhinged fascists and racists.
I could see it being a shitshow moderating a magazine like that. Have to stay really on top of things to keep out the toxicity.
Oh, no doubt. Modding such a community definitely isn’t an enviable position.