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.
Just so you know that 9 member number is not at all accurate. Not sure how kbin handles it but it’s likely that’s closer to 9 members from your instance. Best way to get a true count is to check on the original instance. Currently showing 208 members which is actually TWICE what it was a week ago. I believe this is primarily due to my promotion posts:
https://lemmy.blahaj.zone/post/1102558?scrollToComments=true
https://lemmy.blahaj.zone/post/1072700?scrollToComments=true
I think that the fact that I was able to double the number of subscribers of a largely inactive sub demonstrates that there’s enough people looking for this exact thing to sustain a community. My legitimate recommendation to you is to simply post. I think at this point discussion would probably get the most engagement. Also don’t forget to crosspost. Crossposting is an important way to introduce new people to growing communities. If you’re completely uninterested in posting I suggest you make some noise over on beehaw. One of the mods over there responded to my post by saying it was something they had been looking into. https://beehaw.org/comment/722094
EDIT: Edited to say that community has not really gotten any major wave of activity since the migration. I think regular posts would very quickly grow the community.
Sorry this is such a late reply, I think I did the thing where you comment in your head and forget to post the actual comment. Anyway, I didn’t know that about the subscriber count being linked to the viewer’s instance, so thank you for the knowledge deop. Sheeeit, there are def more people there than I thought.
Hahah, nice recruiting drive! I’ll start posting and commenting. Thank you again.