[nkingsy]

If you think dating apps skew male…

[Der_Einzige]

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]

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]

> 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).

[CM30]

It's very much a matter of what topic the forum or Discord server is about to be honest. My experience is that anything particularly tech orientated skews very heavily male, while more arts and crafts esque topics tend to skew more female. So I suspect for many people here (including myself), the communities we're interested in tend to be male dominated simply because tech in general tends to be.

[kayodelycaon]

Which means more opportunities for some males. :)

[danilor]

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

[kayodelycaon]

Autocorrect on an iPhone converts three periods to an ellipsis.

. . . => …

[falcolas]

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]

On iOS, you can also long press the period button, then select the ellipsis in the pop up menu for accented characters and diacritics.

[yismail]

on macOS, option + ; seems to work …