Well... I've been on a forum (Flashback) that had or has rather sub-sections for racist ideologies, it has sub-sections for left fascist ideologies, pedophilia, drugs, law enforcement, judicial law, cooking, men's fashion, electronics, physics, high school, biology, philosophy, sex work, bdsm, celebrities, animal rights, internet security, travelling, feminism, hunting, fishing, motor vehicles and so on and so forth. Sharing a space with pedophiles and sex workers doesn't make an escort who enjoys underaged clients, nor does it make me a chef, or a barrister, or a physicist. The only thing you're not allowed to do is sell drugs, or sell weapons, you can't use it to sell sex cause buying sex is illegal in Sweden (it's a Swedish forum, though the servers are not based in Sweden), you're not allowed to post child pornography - or links to child pornography, you're basically not allowed to do anything that is illegal, but any topic is up for conversation as long as it's posted in the correct section. Yes, the language used in some sections is vile - but it's nothing new that some people would consider me nothing more than a monkey based solely on my appearance the actions of some people, pretending it doesn't exist does nothing.

The one thing that reddit had going for it was diversity of subreddits and people using those places. Outside of truelesbians and dropthet I visited a gaming subreddit, linuxfornoods, a programming subreddit and one for future PhD students. Saidit will most likely never get the same variety nor amount of people and sub-saidits as reddit had and on here I just visit this sub and the DropTheT sub, because I just don't find saidit as good as reddit was (while I still have my reddit account, I don't use it anymore).

I get the original point of Ovarit, being female centric and males being allowed with restrictions, but at the same time - I don't see any personal benefit of joining it. Yes, I enjoy female only spaces as much as every other female (I mean there's a reason I was at truelesbians and there's a reason why I'm here), but I don't see any reason for having the entire platform female only - I find it very limiting (that might sound like a bit of a contradiction to what I just said in the beginning of the paragraph) and most of the circles Ovarity currently has are completely uninteresting to me but even if they were to create more circles (do love that they're calling them circles though, easier to fit into conversations about it and takes me back to the times of workshops and education circles) about things that would interest me there would probably still not be enough members to make the circles thoroughly interesting or informative.

But that's ju my opinion of course - people should be wherever they get the most out of the conversations I guess.