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[–] [email protected] 127 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (2 children)

Actually, in my opinion, Xitter is the worst social media app for society, not just LGBTQ+ people.

[–] [email protected] 38 points 1 year ago (1 children)

"This thing that is terrible for everyone is also terrible for this specific subset of everyone ..."

also rating social media apps is like rating your favourite STDs

[–] [email protected] 13 points 1 year ago (4 children)

Umm, does that include Lemmy?

[–] [email protected] 13 points 1 year ago

I hope you used protection!

[–] [email protected] 9 points 1 year ago (1 children)

depends if you think anonymous interactions are as impactful as people you actually know.

oh god, is this actually worse?

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[–] [email protected] 8 points 1 year ago (8 children)

I always get confused in this thought. So if govt bans twitter(hypothesis) and these people spread to other better places, will they improve or is it better to leave these vile beings among themselves to rot in their twitter or whatever.

[–] [email protected] 16 points 1 year ago (2 children)

A lot of these hateful beliefs are reinforced by these people’s filter bubbles. Forcing them to other places can improve the overall situation.

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[–] [email protected] 61 points 1 year ago (1 children)

X is the worst social media ~~app for LGBTQ+ people~~

Fixed that for you.

[–] [email protected] 8 points 1 year ago (1 children)
[–] [email protected] 60 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (2 children)

Then get the fuck off of it.

Seriously, it's on you the longer you stay on that shithole platform. Despite all of the warnings. All of the things Musk has done. You're still on it. Why? Besides member count, why? Why stick with something that actively hates you and works against your best interests?

"Because uh, muh friends..."

Get those friends off the fucking platform too. If they're staying behind, consider getting new friends.

Mastodon and Blue Sky are better alternatives. Get the fuck off of X. Get some damn self-respect for once.

[–] [email protected] 32 points 1 year ago (1 children)

I feel like the type of person reading your comment on Lemmy isn't the type of person that stays on a platform after it pulls shit they don't agree with.

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[–] [email protected] 44 points 1 year ago (3 children)

what the fuck is x? you mean Twitter

[–] [email protected] 32 points 1 year ago (1 children)

It's always ok to deadname twitter.

[–] [email protected] 12 points 1 year ago

Seriously. Elon Musk is power tripping to make all of us say his new branding.

And also an idiot for getting rid of the Twitter name and bird, which most companies would kill for to have that sort of household name recognition.

[–] [email protected] 7 points 1 year ago (4 children)
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[–] [email protected] 6 points 1 year ago (3 children)

What’s the verb? Tweet on twitter, uhh X your X on aladeen?

[–] [email protected] 14 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Tweet on twitter, take a Xit on the Xitter.

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[–] [email protected] 42 points 1 year ago

Let me fix that for ya...

X is the worst social media app ~~for LGBTQ+ people~~

No wait...

X is the worst ~~social media app for LGBTQ+ people~~

Oh almost forgot...

~~X~~ Twitter is the worst ~~social media app for LGBTQ+ people~~

There were go.

[–] [email protected] 40 points 1 year ago

They could have left out, "for LGBTQ+ people" and it would have been just as accurate.

[–] [email protected] 40 points 1 year ago (4 children)

Mastodon is pretty great for queer people. Better than lemmy I would say (and obviously better than the mainstream apps) ...

[–] [email protected] 37 points 1 year ago (3 children)

Lemmy is probably the worst social network in terms of discrimination against Windows users.

[–] [email protected] 24 points 1 year ago* (last edited 10 months ago)
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[–] [email protected] 34 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (2 children)

Oof, the article goes on to say all the platforms failed. X just failed a bit more.

This is going to lead to some “well, they’re all about the same.” discourse shenanigans.

[–] [email protected] 29 points 1 year ago (3 children)

What did TikTok do better than the rest? Be annoyingly vertical and short form?

[–] [email protected] 10 points 1 year ago (2 children)

I'm genuinely surprised something owned partly by the Chinese government isn't at the bottom.

[–] [email protected] 8 points 1 year ago

On the Chinese only servers they forbsure don't allow it

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[–] [email protected] 7 points 1 year ago

Less accent on actual interactions between fellow consumers plus genZ prevalence?

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[–] [email protected] 17 points 1 year ago (2 children)

I'm surprised those scores are so high honestly

It's fuckin hard being queer on social media

[–] [email protected] 9 points 1 year ago (1 children)

I gotta say, I am pleasantly surprised by Lemmy. I almost never see anything but antifascist allies, and when I do those allies jump that motherfucker's shit.

[–] [email protected] 10 points 1 year ago

Lemmy has it's own dens of awful that simp pretty hard for dictators and some pretty shitty regimes

Luckily my instance is defederated from the worst one (IMO)

Lemmy is definitely a lot more accepting of queer people though which I really dig

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[–] [email protected] 34 points 1 year ago

X is the worst social media app. Ftfy

[–] [email protected] 20 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (1 children)

I have not been active on Zuck platforms or Twitter in over 10 years and it is highly recommended. I haven't been on Reddit since the API changes killed Infinity app. Also recommended. Never touched TikTok or any of the zoomer social media platforms. Extremely recommended.

Amazingly if you just avoid the cesspit of constant engagement, regardless of your life circumstances, you will be happier.

Besides, most things that are genuinely funny or useful on Twitter just get screenshotted and shared via other means anyway.

[–] [email protected] 7 points 1 year ago (1 children)

I was an early beta tester for twitter. Didn’t “get it” then, and I still don’t “get it”.

I haven’t been on any Zuck platforms ever and left Reddit during the API mess, I also don’t use TikTok or LinkedIN and recommend to all leaving corporate social media.

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[–] [email protected] 16 points 1 year ago

Well that makes sense, after all, Nazi bars do tend to be hostile to members of any minority group and Twitter is the biggest Nazi bar on the internet.

[–] [email protected] 16 points 1 year ago (6 children)

This is Not news for queer* people.

I am in this instance using "Queer" to mean an umbrella for all who are othered by society.

I'm telling you that people with lifelong chronic disability, people who are sex workers, and people who are dispropotionately targeted by the law enforcement or the state, AND disenfranchised casually in everyday society because of their appearance and/or melanin levels...All have networks of contacts they have relied on for over a decade in many cases.

It was easy for me to get off Twitter but for a lot of people I care about, it'd mean severing so many important bonds...and I just thought this sentiment is something that someone reading might apply too, as well

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[–] [email protected] 15 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (5 children)

Worse than Truth Social? Press X to doubt.

[–] [email protected] 9 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (2 children)

That would require that it be a social media platform, as supposed to a money laundering front.

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[–] [email protected] 14 points 1 year ago

I would say for everyone...

[–] [email protected] 10 points 1 year ago

'X is the worst social media app' Period

[–] [email protected] 10 points 1 year ago

the worst, if you don't count Gab and Truth Social

[–] [email protected] 9 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Meanwhile, Tumblr is (or was?) incredibly queer back when I used it. Where's the love?

Reddit should have got a mention, but you know who really wins? Good ol' Lemmy-- LGBTQ (especially T) representing here. Although that's cheating cause we have blahaj, haha (not like the Fediverse will ever get mentioned, lol)

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[–] [email protected] 8 points 1 year ago

I mean, yeah, that's true... On the basis that it's the worst social media platform for... Anything at all.

[–] [email protected] 7 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (3 children)

Only the first 7 ~~letters~~ words of this headline are needed.

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[–] [email protected] 7 points 1 year ago (1 children)

I dunno. I think X may be the least biased platform ever. It's complete shit regardless of who you are.

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[–] [email protected] 7 points 1 year ago (2 children)

Lgbt nation being surprisingly anti-lgbt by refusing to tell everyone the best social media website for lgbt folk.

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[–] [email protected] 6 points 1 year ago

Lone Skum deadnames his child, you deadname his company. Fuck Skum, and fuck Twatter.

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