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Ironically the source of much of their liquidity.

In the very broadest sense I don’t disagree with you. Making a community private is a useful tool and can help to simplify strict entry guidelines.

However, given that “Cater to a very specific group of people”, refers to basically half of earth’s population in this case, I do have some quibbles.

I don’t have the data in front of me, but I bet that women represent something quite less than half the population of Lemmy. It doesn’t even stretch the imagination to suppose that they represent just a fraction of the user base.

So this isn’t a niche interest or obscure sub-culture we’re talking about. This is an artificial minority population. Is the simplicity of going private worth the added obscurity and increased friction to what should be organic community growth?

As it is, you had to see it, decide to engage with it, and then learn that it wasn’t meant for you, and you’d have just preferred to remain unaware it ever existed. Never mind that would also ensure most other People remain unaware it exists.

Is it really such a hardship on you for the filter to be set a little wider for the good of that community?

Evangelical Christianity is nothing but a malleable garment that we use to dress up and cover whatever bigotries we want to preserve in our society.

I think you just described two things working almost exactly as designed.

You should use block liberally to curate your feed.

Similarly, communities should have whatever rules make sense for them. If that keeps the community small, that might be the desired outcome for them.

I think blocking was the right call here.

They are so sweet!

Honey

Rocky

Penny

Siblings

She is beautiful!

Or that this will be called the Anthropocene at that point.

It shows up for me on Voyager. I figure it is one of the more benign and wholesome traditions of reddit, and I’d be happy to see it take root here, especially since reddit will eventually exploit it if they haven’t already.

They are litter mates, and actually seeing them like this really highlights how they share patches of each other’s coats. Honey (left) has a definite patch on her leg that is just like Rocky’s (right) overall coat, and Rocky has a patch on his face that is just like her coat.

Happy cake day!

I can only imagine what you have planned for the animal after all that. Snuggles probably, sicko.