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Beyond the Silence: How Men Navigate Infertility Through Digital Communities and Data Sharing
Tawfiq Ammari, Zarah Khondoker, Yihan Wang, Nikki Roda
https://arxiv.org/abs/2509.10003

Beyond the Silence: How Men Navigate Infertility Through Digital Communities and Data Sharing
Men experiencing infertility face unique challenges navigating Traditional Masculinity Ideologies that discourage emotional expression and help-seeking. This study examines how Reddit's r/maleinfertility community helps overcome these barriers through digital support networks. Using topic modeling (115 topics), network analysis (11 micro-communities), and time-lagged regression on 11,095 posts and 79,503 comments from 8,644 users, we found the community functions as a hybrid space: informal dia…

Any developer worth their salt knows that the outputting code is the easiest part of software development, and that code as an artifact has little value without everything that surrounds it: the people, the shared knowledge, the practices (both formal and informal), the infrastructure, the networks of trust, etc etc.
And yet!! like fools, we’ve got ourselves hung up on OSS licenses and copyright — the legal structures surrounding the code itself — as if code were in fact the only thing that really matters. As if we didn’t know better.
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