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Somewhat lighter topic, what good magazines/microblogs/people have you found here in the fediverse? (kbin.social)

submitted 2 years ago by Halafax@kbin.social to c/men@kbin.social

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I'm still trying to get used to kbin, but it seems to me that it's doing OK. Which is a huge relief. Way back when, I tried Voat to get away from reddit, but it barely had any traffic and the traffic it did have got weird very quickly. The other aggregator sites I found seemed to have similar issues. The last time I logged into Minds, it read like my 80 year old mom's Facebook page.

This mag is my central interest, but please tell me what cool places/people/interests you have found. Particularly if they seem applicable to the m/men audience.

Thanks in advance

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[–] a-man-from-earth@kbin.social 3 points 2 years ago

There is a real dearth of men's activism in the Fediverse. I'm not aware of any similar community out there. There's a MensRights magazine here on Kbin, but it is inactive and has all of two posts. There's also a MensRights community on lemmy.world, but it has no content whatsoever. And there's an intactivism magazine here with all of one post.

I've also found /m/humanrights, but the last post there was in May... And there is /m/AskMen, but also with very low activity.

Then there's the Men's Liberation community on lemmy.ca, but that is entirely subservient to feminism and habitually uses toxic terms such as toxic masculinity and patriarchy. Not something we can recommend.

So yeah, there isn't anything specific to male advocacy (and active) in the Fediverse that I've found, apart from this place.

There are a lot of tech people, especially on Mastodon, and I follow some of them. But Mastodon being a Twitter clone, it centers around following people, and has a way flatter timeline. I much prefer the forum style, and especially the Reddit style, of nested threaded discussions centered on a topic.

Some magazines/communities here that I've found interesting are /m/fediverse, /m/space, /m/linux, and /m/thenetherlands@feddit.nl.