The implication that the experiment cited was at all meant to backup the assertion that there exists a

phenomena wherein men tend to feel the need to dominate discussions regardless of their actual qualifications

is very clearly a mischaracterization. What I did was describe the content of the video in a comments section otherwise devoid of any evidence that anybody had watched the video. If you are interested in looking into the body of work that establishes the tendency of men to talk over others, I have found the full-text of the fairly foundational metastudy "Understanding Gender Differences in Amount of Talk: A Critical Review of Research". It's notable that most of the research on this topic leading up to the present day has been framed as answering the age-old question "Do women talk more?".

attributes a lot of reasons for why the men did this

Those are not reasons in so far as they are meant to explain the men's motivations but rather the methods by which they wrestle and maintain control of the discourse. It's important to understand that this is written largely to bring them to the attention of the folks that are actively marginalized by these activities, so that they may counter and dismantle these systems.

I'm not sure there's really anything wrong with what's going on now but it does seem that new users from Reddit in particular have all but dried up. Long term this will definitely be a problem. Mastodon provides a userbase in the low millions to potentially tap into and they already understand federation. Strikes me as low hanging fruit that has a lot more value than the average reddit user.

See this thread: https://discuss.tchncs.de/post/2196821

That's not actually how defederation works. You would still not be able to see those your instance has defederated from.

Just the frontend then I guess? Are you on mobile?

This makes sense but is it fair to attribute this to the women in this situation? Or does this have more to do with men in power upholding patriarchal practices at the expense of other men?

I thought that too originally but then I saw activity in the modlog. Any idea why those moderators aren't listed in the sidebar?

Oof that's rough. Honestly worth deleting the post for

To be fair, in this case I doubt they broke any rules. Speaking up always does more than downvotes. Particularly true for those of us on instances without downvotes.

Biggest issue I've had so far is with the apps. Kaitekis the only one that really suits all my needs but it grey screens on my phone

This may be intentional. Wouldn't be the first time.

The thing that I don't get is that moving everything to the cloud kind of destroys their moat, doesn't it? The only reason Windows has maintained it's place in the OS ecosystem is because people claim everything runs on Windows. I think it really speaks to how far software on Windows has fallen (e.g. scammy nonfree programs being required for basic tasks like managing hard drive partitions) that Microsoft thinks that's worth blowing up. Of course, I understand the justification of Microsoft is a huge cloud player, but why wouldn't they try to maintain OS dominance?