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If you think dating apps skew male…

by nkingsy 2y ago

danilor 2y ago
Off topic: What setup did you use to make this comment so that you used the … character instead of three . characters?
- kayodelycaon 2y ago
  Autocorrect on an iPhone converts three periods to an ellipsis. . . . => …
- yismail 2y ago
  on macOS, option + ; seems to work …
- falcolas 2y ago
  Windows: Alt+0133 - numbers typed with the number pad. The character map app on Windows can help find all of these codes for different glyphs.
- thimabi 2y ago
  On iOS, you can also long press the period button, then select the ellipsis in the pop up menu for accented characters and diacritics.
kayodelycaon 2y ago
Which means more opportunities for some males. :)
Der_Einzige 2y ago
All the fun spaces on the internet are extremely male dominated. I strongly believe in the autism as extreme male brain hypothesis for this reason. Discord especially is such a sausage fest. Sad to see it kill web forums (which I suppose were all sausage fests)
- mrweasel 2y ago
  Weirdly enough old-school chat forums were not all that bad in terms of male to female ration. Back in the late 90s early 2000s I lived in an apartment with two roommates. They spend A LOT of their free time on chat forums and we'd frequently host parties for their friends from the chats. Those where pretty close to 50/50, maybe 60/40. At that time anonymous online chats seemed to have little issue attracting young women.
- dragonwriter 2y ago
  > All the fun spaces on the internet are extremely male dominated. Maybe this is just a reflection of what you consider "fun". > Discord especially is such a sausage fest. Discord isn't a single integrated community; there are plenty of servers that aren't sausage fests, maybe you just haven't been interested in, or invited to, them? > Sad to see it kill web forums (which I suppose were all sausage fests) Some were (and are), some weren't (and aren't).
  - mezzie2 2y ago
    > Maybe this is just a reflection of what you consider "fun". This is what I'd suspect. I'm a lesbian and hang out pretty equally in very male dominated and very female dominated places online. I find it really interesting that most hobby/fandom spaces online do unofficially segregate by gender to the point where it's common in both to just assume everybody there is male/female (and straight, of course, because this all kind of relies on straight gender roles). > Discord isn't a single integrated community; there are plenty of servers that aren't sausage fests, maybe you just haven't been interested in, or invited to, them? Yeah, I'm in several female dominated servers and have been in the past. I will say that more of the female dominated servers are private/not advertised, specifically to keep them from being overrun and keeping them a manageable size. In general, the women care more about curating the social space for ease of connection and are more conscientious when it comes to things like considering how big a server can be before it's a pain to mod, what the impacts of creating another channel would be, what the impacts would be of creating restricted channels would be, etc. Guys wing it more.
- CM30 2y ago

If you think dating apps skew male…

danilor 2y ago

Off topic: What setup did you use to make this comment so that you used the … character instead of three . characters?

kayodelycaon 2y ago
Autocorrect on an iPhone converts three periods to an ellipsis. . . . => …
yismail 2y ago
on macOS, option + ; seems to work …
falcolas 2y ago
Windows: Alt+0133 - numbers typed with the number pad. The character map app on Windows can help find all of these codes for different glyphs.
thimabi 2y ago
On iOS, you can also long press the period button, then select the ellipsis in the pop up menu for accented characters and diacritics.

kayodelycaon 2y ago

Which means more opportunities for some males. :)

Der_Einzige 2y ago

All the fun spaces on the internet are extremely male dominated. I strongly believe in the autism as extreme male brain hypothesis for this reason. Discord especially is such a sausage fest. Sad to see it kill web forums (which I suppose were all sausage fests)

mrweasel 2y ago
Weirdly enough old-school chat forums were not all that bad in terms of male to female ration. Back in the late 90s early 2000s I lived in an apartment with two roommates. They spend A LOT of their free time on chat forums and we'd frequently host parties for their friends from the chats. Those where pretty close to 50/50, maybe 60/40. At that time anonymous online chats seemed to have little issue attracting young women.
dragonwriter 2y ago
> All the fun spaces on the internet are extremely male dominated. Maybe this is just a reflection of what you consider "fun". > Discord especially is such a sausage fest. Discord isn't a single integrated community; there are plenty of servers that aren't sausage fests, maybe you just haven't been interested in, or invited to, them? > Sad to see it kill web forums (which I suppose were all sausage fests) Some were (and are), some weren't (and aren't).
- mezzie2 2y ago
  > Maybe this is just a reflection of what you consider "fun". This is what I'd suspect. I'm a lesbian and hang out pretty equally in very male dominated and very female dominated places online. I find it really interesting that most hobby/fandom spaces online do unofficially segregate by gender to the point where it's common in both to just assume everybody there is male/female (and straight, of course, because this all kind of relies on straight gender roles). > Discord isn't a single integrated community; there are plenty of servers that aren't sausage fests, maybe you just haven't been interested in, or invited to, them? Yeah, I'm in several female dominated servers and have been in the past. I will say that more of the female dominated servers are private/not advertised, specifically to keep them from being overrun and keeping them a manageable size. In general, the women care more about curating the social space for ease of connection and are more conscientious when it comes to things like considering how big a server can be before it's a pain to mod, what the impacts of creating another channel would be, what the impacts would be of creating restricted channels would be, etc. Guys wing it more.
CM30 2y ago