Women do already approach men. But not ones they aren't interested in.. So it's kind of hard to interpret your "mandatory" any other way.
Unless what you're saying is that it should be mandatory that men don't approach women first, which kind of sounds like you're making the argument for the thing you're raging against.
I also disagree with conscription. But even if you think it's a good idea, you're equating a national service requirement to mandating women speak to men (presumably many of whom they have no interest in). This is just getting wilder and wilder.
I hope it continues as Lemmy gets bigger, but I'm kind of doubtful it won't eventually decay in the same way as reddit. At least, I don't see anything inherently different that would avoid that. Perhaps the federation and moderation structure might help, but that doesn't seem certain yet..
For your europe example, If it's related solely to someone's personality then it's not racism by definition. If it's claimed that it's based on personality, but the claim only appears in relation to people who look different in a particular way, then it's racism masquerading as something else.
Maybe the only real difference you're seeing is that Europeans are a lot more subtle than Americans (culturally).
Because that's what's mastodon groups are (e.g. the a.gup.pe). Mastodon doesn't have actual native groups, so bots-as-groups is a work around.
Mastodon doesn't fully federate with Lemmy, so while you can partially interact with Lemmy users and communities, you can't meaningfully partake in conversations here.
As a climate scientist, yep ☹️