Understandable! Apologies if I came across overly chastising towards you specifically.

Instent vs impact is pretty hard in this case. Part of my response is from conversations with friends in STEM fields and the impacts of the male centric nature of the space (comp sci especially) has on them. Especially with how much men self-reinforce that position. It truly is an exclusionary space for them.

I hadn’t read as many comments in this thread yet and there are some well thought out discussions here too, which I’m glad to read.

I do get the joke; Even so, to this post’s credit, that this comment [at time of writing] is +3 is a great representation of their challenges.

The whole point is about people feeling legitimate using the platform. Jokes feeding on the trope “there aren’t women on the Internet” reinforces alienation. It makes sense they wouldn’t feel comfortable if dismissal is the community upvoted response to them -already- feeling unwelcome.

What alternates do you use? I ask this less from self hosting and more for my software teams.

We currently use jira, confluence and gitlab vcs and CI for mostly AWS development. Any non jira (/confluence ) items you’d recommend?