Normally I find myself typing the URL in, sometimes that finds it straight away, other times I need to search again afterwards with just the basic community name. Adding new communities in Lemmy is not very intuitive!
Even mainstream clothes are better in the woman's section. I was in Peacocks (fairly small cheap clothes shop - you can see most of what they've got by standing near the centre) and you can just tell where the men's clothes are by the sea of dull, boring shades with not a single thing showing any sign of colour at all, like the brightness is turned down to 1 on the telly. The style differences are minimal. Even the material is just awful scratchy fabric for the most part. Look over to the woman's section and it's a sea of colour, many more different styles (not that many, as I said, this is a small cheap shop), and if you touch anything it's instantly noticeable that the material is much better quality, softer.
I don't get woman who wear men's clothes - why would you put yourself through that?
Having tested this by subscribing to a group here, and seeing some posts to it via my Mastodon account, I can confirm that it doesn't work. The posts don't show up in Lemmy (they do in Kbin as I noted previously).
I agree it's better to use Lemmy and Mastodon separately. A tip: You can follow your Lemmy account from Mastodon and easily boost your own posts onto there, which might be a nice way to increase exposure of anything you post.
As an aside; Kbin allows you to boost posts. If you follow a Kbin user from Mastodon you'll see all their boosts (and regular posts, and replies). So, if you follow your own Kbin account from your Mastodon account you'll easily be able to transfer any posts you see to Mastodon - and then boost them to your Mastodon followers.
Normally I find myself typing the URL in, sometimes that finds it straight away, other times I need to search again afterwards with just the basic community name. Adding new communities in Lemmy is not very intuitive!