Ghazi @lemmy.blahaj.zone squirrel @lemmy.blahaj.zone 5mo ago

LGBT and Marginalized Voices Are Not Welcome on Threads

www.macstories.net LGBT and Marginalized Voices Are Not Welcome on Threads

As Twitter was crumbling under Elon Musk’s new leadership in 2023, various online circles found themselves flocking to alternative platforms. While some may have kept using Twitter (now known as… X), a non-negligible number of communities migrated over to Mastodon and other smaller platforms. Meanwh...

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Stop using proprietary social media. It's really not that hard folks. It's like all the artists got pissed their art was being used to train AI on Instagram. Wtf did you think was going to happen? Proprietary social media is a tool the owning class uses to monetize working-class people's content.
- Tbf, artists are out making art hopefully and trying to have a life, they're not predicting that AI would steal everything about them. Blaming artists for corporations stealing their shit isn't cool.
  
  If the funeral director told you to play in the street would you?
- lmao like Lemmy is any better. every trans related thread is filled with trans-med apologists, or straight up trans-meds. TikTok, Tumblr, honestly also YouTube... all have thriving lgbtq communities and are proprietary. I know there are def downsides and issues with data being sold, but just bc a platform isn't propriety, that does not mean it'll be less filled with bigoted people.
  
  In my experience which instance you're on (and, as a result, which instances populate your feed) heavily influences how much transmedicalism (and other bigotries) you encounter.
  
  From what I see on your profile page, you mostly interact with lemmy.world communities. That's the biggest instance, that received the largest influx of reddit-quitters, notably.
  
  In case you haven't encountered them, you might want to take a look at some of the communities hosted on lemmy.blahaj.zone.
  
  Not my experience here at all
  
  Wtf is trans-med?
  
  To be blunt, there is way more toxicity and extreme views on Lemmy than on Reddit. I've seen worse things in 15 months of Lemmy than I've seen in 15 users of Reddit use.
- There are bots scrapping everything everywhere.
  
  Scraping
I have a friend who runs a small Facebook meme page (not monetized so that's not a factor), and the content is pretty unmistakably fairly often explicitly leftist and/or queer and so is the audience. They've said that every time they post a picture with gender identity and sexual orientation-related keywords the audience of the post is lower than it is otherwise, ie. it gets shown to fewer people compared to other posts made around the same time. Whether this is actually true or not is anybody's guess since my friend has definitely not been systematic about this and the variation might just be noise.

Now even if it is true, it it doesn't necessarily mean Meta is intentionally suppressing that stuff, and it might just be that the content just is less popular and it has nothing to do with it having the word "gay" or whatever, but I'm not entirely convinced it's not malicious either. Meta has a real habit of leaving actual hate speech be when reported, but happily removing comments from people calling an actual homophobe a homophobe etc. etc. Apparently there was a picture of Hitler with the text "miss me yet?" making the rounds; my friend reported it and got told it's fine 🤷
- Meta has a real habit of leaving actual hate speech be when reported, but happily removing comments from people calling an actual homophobe a homophobe
  
  Exactly my experience. Homophobe says heinous shit. Report them and then call them a bigoted piece of shit. My comment removed, theirs left, me banned for a period of time.
  
  Then they did me the favor of permanently banning me for posting that nude image of trump... Lol, a year or more after I posted it.
  
  Yeah this is why I keep my Facebook use to a minimum, just for events etc.
I quit Twitter and Facebook and Instagram in the early days of Covid when they became way too toxic to tolerate. Why did anyone think that Legacy social media would change?
No surprise here. Facebook is also happy to keep hate speech up, but if you write "white people suck" as a white person, your comment gets removed and the appeal will be rejected, if it's reviewed at all. But hey, saying all poc should be shot or something is totally fine.
For many, Threads understandably felt like a breath of fresh air following the chaos that engulfed Twitter. Unlike the latter, Threads is not run by someone that I and many others find to be an exceptionally despicable human.

This is... telling.
No shit.
we're going to have to stay on mastodon for at least until someone tells us about how good the moderation is
Thus mastodon accounts immediately closed when the manipulative assholes who run the big ones decided to federate with meta.

Sure, dear, we can have Doctor Mengele over for dinner.

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