A place for those who are breastfeeding (and those who aren’t but would like to learn more, all are welcome!)
A place to swap stories, pics, tips, ask questions and find support for this beautiful, but often challenging, journey that mamas around the world embark on.
This is awesome! I miss the many parenting subreddits I used to visit! I think allowing or encouraging pics is a recipe for disaster though…
On the contrary I think pics will help to normalise breastfeeding and show that it’s simply a baby feeding, it’s natural and not anything else to be ogled at. I previously used r/breastfeeding and they had plenty of pics, though I suspect good moderation was needed to keep that successful :)
I remember a comment in one of the reddit migration threads in the fediverse from one of r/breastfeeding’s mods about the expected fallout from Reddit’s fucking with mod tools (which is why I clicked on this post to begin with, breastfeeding isn’t a topic I’m interested in). Apparently very good moderation was needed and Reddit’s fuckery was expected to make it impossible to maintain that.
Given that lemmy’s moderation tools are currently at vanilla Reddit’s level at best, if not worse, you’re going to need some luck (and might be better situated at beehaw, which prioritises being a safe space and defederated with lemmy.world because trolls were able to just make a new lemmy.world account when banned from beehaw communities and no less extreme but adequate moderation tools were available).
Thank you so much for your thoughtful comment, it’s certainly given me a lot to consider. I suppose it’s deciding now whether to be in the safer space or have the outreach to be visible to more people who need the support. I might be wrong but I’m assuming that Lemmy users currently don’t have a huge percentage of women who are child rearing at the moment. But then again, I’m here, so who knows. :)
I wish you good luck. Especially since as far as I can tell moderation tools aren’t very mature yet. On the other hand the lemmy/kbin part of the fediverse is still small in comparison to reddit, so maybe you’re lucky and nobody who’s a creep about this topic joins this part of the fediverse before mod tools are ready for them.
Thank you again, yes hopefully this might be something that is a future problem as lemmy grows, at the moment everyone seems pretty alright on here. My worry is that if/when lemmy becomes easier to access to non-techies and more people (looking at you Threads ugh), then we will start having problems. I hope we defederate and do it soon.
