For those out of the loop, WomensStuff has a women-only rule, where men are respectfully asked to not reply to posts.

  • snooggums@lemmy.world
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    2 months ago

    Lemmy has the ability to set who can create Posts within a community, and there are a lot that only allow the mods to create Posts.

    Trying to do the same for comments would require a lot more complexity unless comments were tied to subscriptions. Even then it wouldn’t cover the situation of people wanting to subscribe without being eligible to comment.

    To be clear, I do think WomensStuff women only rule is 100% perfectly fine for various reasons and the limitations of the software are the issue.

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      2 months ago

      i agree with this, but would like to point out:

      if the software can’t do what you want it to do…you need to use a different software.

      from what i can tell about the community, they really want to be a discord server, but on lemmy…why not just use discord in the first place then?

      faulting the general userbase for using the software exactly as intended and then getting mad about it seems…really toxic…and intentionally combative.