I totally agree. At the moment I’m just going to make an IRC channel, but also consider a Matrix/Element server for the future.

I’m currently using #sissy_discussion on Rizon, you’re welcome to join! Here is a webchat client for it:

https://client01.chat.mibbit.com/?server=irc.rizon.net&channel=%23sissy_discussion

If you venture into promoting a reddit alternative on their site, however, you probably take on risk of them finding out and deleting your account. So, I wouldn’t use your regular Sissy Sophia account if I were you, and I’d probably take other privacy steps, like VPN

Thanks for mentioning this, as it definitely could be a concern. I do like your idea of using intermediaries though.

By the way - and I know this is out of left field - I’m trying to bring together a roundtable group of moderators and content creators to work on some things for the sissy community, such as an accepted defintion of what a “sissy” is, a symbol and pride flag for sissies, and other projects. Would you be interested?

Oh no worries, I got that idea! I was just wondering if there was any way to link it natively on Reddit without having to do so through the survey

Is there a way that you’ve found to link it on Reddit without activating the automatic filters?

Should have responded to this earlier, sorry.

Our two biggest potential sources of subscribers are probably lemmysnfw users not subscribed and r/sissyology subscribees.

My hunch is that you’ll primarily want to look outside of Lemmy for new subscribers, since Lemmy only has so many members and it’s possible those who would be interested in sissy topics are already subscribed.

That said, maintaining engagement from those already subscribed will be key to keeping this community active.

I know you’ve done surveys in the past. I work in research IRL, and between the two of us we could probably bang out surveys pretty easily (the tough part might be finding a site to host the survey that we’re comfortable with, but that’s a one-off cost).

I’m planning on doing another large-scale Sissy Survey. I’m doing it with Google Forms, which I’d avoid if I could but I don’t know any decent alternatives.

For a little extra sneakiness, we could link to the survey both from here and r/sissyology, but indicate in the survey that results will be posted here only :P.

That could work!

I might be wrong though, but isn’t Reddit auto-removing posts that mention Lemmy? Or is that a different site?

My idea is to reduce the space that the house rules take up in the sidebar and add more sissy resources.

This could be good!

One way of building up this community would be to establish it as a higher-quality version of the communities on Reddit. People will flock to places that can offer more effective training methods.

I’m considering alternative options as well! I already have a Discord and I want to branch out just in case the platform goes full Reddit.

I’m always curious about this sort of thing, can I ask, how did you meet and/or broach the subject of sissyhood to your mistress?

Ooh, that’s a good suggestion!

Yeah, I totally get that. Phone number requirements are a deal-breaker for me too. I was able to get a Discord account without registering one, but it can be annoying, and there’s still huge privacy concerns. I really, really want to move past Discord as a platform to something more open and decentralized.

I wonder what could be some ways to drive engagement here. As a mod of /r/sissyology I’ve been considering reaching out to the top posters there and trying to build a new community with higher standards of discourse and on a safer platform than Reddit. Lemmy is a huge step in the right direction, though with my security-conscious mindset I’d love to have one (or multiple!) back-ups to Lemmy as well :P