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To be happy that MNs latest spin-off is dead?

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disorganisedteapot · 29/10/2023 04:44

I don't like flouncers and I certainly don't like spin-offs.

AIBU to enjoy the fact that femvox is a ghost town? The latest casualty in a long line of the same, including the notorious Mumschat, the Attagirls and Moldies.

MN forever! If you want to flounce, then do it quietly. Nobody cares.

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AproposofEverything · 19/06/2024 20:55

Bizarre

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Chamomile, is that you again?

theowlwhisperer · 19/06/2024 11:10

genuine question, do some posters have a life in the real world, or do they solely exist for this forum?

That level of involvement is amazing.

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franbalam · 03/11/2023 07:55

The trolls must have had a play over at femvox because today it's locked to guests. Bison? Water? Trans? I wonder.

AproposofEverything · 01/11/2023 20:26

SunlightOverBamburgh · 30/10/2023 13:38

Sorry, yes that's right . You can see I wasn't on it very long! 😀

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You weren’t wrong. It’s Femvox.

Hernameisdeborah · 01/11/2023 20:02

I remember Mums Chat got really nasty. It started off obsessed with Justine and the MN moderators, before becoming a racist hellpit. Some members' boasting about trolling the Black Mumsnetters board was particularly low.

Ffsmakeitstop · 01/11/2023 17:19

At least on Femvox nobody feels the need to put the boot in to people who are struggling in their daily lives. You can just hear the sneery voices on here "and yet you had a baby with this man why?" There are some absolutely awful posters who delight in being horrible.
Femvox is just a gentler place. Haven't tried any others.

YellowWorkdesk · 31/10/2023 07:23

@disorganisedteapot do you also kick puppies and steal from babies? Why do you care what others are up to?

Oblomov23 · 30/10/2023 14:50

Is Femvox dead? No. It's still running. I've just checked.

SunlightOverBamburgh · 30/10/2023 13:38

CGRossetti · 30/10/2023 12:52

How about VoxFem ?

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Sorry, yes that's right . You can see I wasn't on it very long! 😀

CGRossetti · 30/10/2023 12:52

SunlightOverBamburgh · 30/10/2023 10:52

I tried FemVox but it wasn't as good as here.

How about VoxFem ?

SunlightOverBamburgh · 30/10/2023 10:52

I tried FemVox but it wasn't as good as here.

TheOccupier · 30/10/2023 10:07

YABU to use "spin-off" when you mean "competitor". A spin-off is an additional thing created by the original parent company/creator that ends up being independent/functioning in its own right. Like Paypal was a spin-off from eBay, and Frasier was a spin-off from Cheers. Calling this Femvox forum "MN's latest spin-off" implies that Mumsnet set it up.

Actually, I wouldn't even call these other fora "competitors". Maybe "challengers" or "wannabes".

CGRossetti · 30/10/2023 09:54

LulooLemon · 30/10/2023 09:38

Femvox is great! Please sign up now (it's all free) and support it!

And the namechanging ?

LulooLemon · 30/10/2023 09:38

Femvox is great! Please sign up now (it's all free) and support it!

CGRossetti · 30/10/2023 07:48

None of the knock offs I've seen understand the reason for the namechange facility, which is unique to MN. This far into the game it has to be something that was custom coded, as you can't get it on any other platform.

The last time I peeked, they were trying to sell it as a bonus (well you would, wouldn't you ?) rather than acknowledging it is a critical part of enabling women to stay safe.

Frankly unless any rival wannabe site can ensure they can offer the same, they are dead in the water. (Which is something I reminded them of then, under a different name).

OrbostLane · 30/10/2023 07:14

I'm guilty of signing up at femvox (femvox.net if you want to have a nosey) and kind of forgetting about it. Online, our memories are short. Sex topic in active? Gone and forgotten. Vibrators for vulva owners? Nary a whisper.

It's a shame too because it could have filled the gap between "too old for mumsnet" and "too young for gransnet" gap that I find myself in.

If a fraction of the people who complain about MN - myself included - participated in something like that then there would be two positives: 1) They would have the community the complain about not having, and 2) MN might take more actions to keep the trolls in line. Win-win.

AproposofEverything · 30/10/2023 04:57

Femvox is a nice site, it’s just struggled to get enough velocity to keep going I think. I’m not sure why you’d gloat about that? They’re just trying to find a spot to talk that has less of the issues of such a big site. Trolls, the sex board issues, bots and, erm, goadiness and gloating. So yes, not surprised the OP created this post. It makes sense you don’t like it there.

pickledandpuzzled · 29/10/2023 12:40

Translation: believe that sex is immutable, and gender expression need have no relation to sex.
Hence me wearing skirts some days, jeans others, and using the women’s toilet regardless.

WrongSwanson · 29/10/2023 10:01

Motnight · 29/10/2023 09:08

I got a Moldie invite.

I did join for a while. Some members more equal than others. I left when we all got told by one of the more equal members how we should be reacting to a very specific event.

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That doesnt surprise me. That's how Mumsnet used to feel before the Moldies flounced.

Oblomov23 · 29/10/2023 09:58

Was it all started in the feminist section? I didn't even know that.