Alright, went looking for active versions of the communities listed in that post.

• [email protected] exists but is very dead
• [email protected], but a lot of people have issues with lemmy.ml. I try to avoid it personally.
• There are several Animal Crossing communities. The most recently active one I found is: [email protected]. There is also [email protected] and [email protected], both dead. There are a few more but with nowhere near as big a following.
• And of course, [email protected], active, run by me (games about romancing dudes, aimed at women, community also currently allows amare games which are romance games aimed at a more diverse audience due to how they can overlap and how tiny Fedi is for otome and amare)

I also submit some communities for interests traditionally considered feminine, though I realize not all women would participate in these and other genders participate too. All are active unless mentioned otherwise.

• [email protected]
• [email protected]
• [email protected]
• [email protected]
• [email protected] is now dead and looking for someone to take it over
• [email protected]
• [email protected] (open-world gacha game explicitly aimed at women)
• [email protected] (manga genre aimed at women where someone gets transported from the real world into that of a stereotypical otome game—not actually a great representation of otome games, we don’t have villainesses trying to get in the way of your romance usually and we aren’t always in medieval fantasy settings, but still enjoyable to this otome player. Very dead, might gain some activity soon)

If women post about these things here I highly encourage them to crosspost to the hobby community too. I am definitely not the only woman who isn’t following this community. I don’t plan to engage here aside from these two comments. (Nothing against you or other women, I don’t hold “there is no patriarchy” beliefs, but this community does allow discussion on more depressing topics than I want to engage with on my online funtime, such as patriarchy and probably sexism.) I hope this proves a fruitful and fun place for the women who do subscribe to the community :) good luck!