LGBTQ
A supportive, loving community run by and for LGBTQ+ people and their allies.
Feel free to discuss anything related to LGBTQ+ issues, and remember that despite everything, we all very literally are in this together.
Rules:
Kindness Always
No name-calling, trolling, ad-homs, personal attacks, strawmanning, or disrespectful or abusive behavior toward any other member.
No Bigotry
This should go without saying, but any homophobia, transphobia, racism/sexism/any kind of -ism is not allowed. “It’s just a joke” is not an excuse. Any sort of needling to try to convince the mods or anyone else to accept such behavior is not acceptable either.
No Spam, NSFW, Or Other Disruptive Content or Behavior
Please respect our community and don’t use it to post spam, porn, gore, or any other disruptive content.
Please Tag All Discussions About The Sub with [Meta]
Any meta threads or discussions, suggestions, etc. needs to be tagged with [Meta] in the title, that way it’ll be easier for mods to find. If you have any issues with another member or what-have-you, please message a mod.
Hateful People or Members of Hate Groups Not Allowed
No Nazis, fascists, anti-LGBTQ+ folks, or any member of any groups predisposed to discriminate against or cause trouble for LGBTQ+ people or the community. This includes members of the U.S. right wing. We care about the safety and well-being of our community and that means we won’t allow anyone who will threaten or endanger LGBTQ+ people in the sub, and sadly, the U.S. political situation has become volatile enough where a ban of this caliber has become necessary.
Please Tag Titles Of Sensitive Posts With [TW] or [CW]
Please put one of those tags on any post talking about rape, suicide, or self-harm.
English Only Please
Posts and comments must be in English only so they can be properly moderated.
Note: failure to abide by the rules may result in a ban depending on severity.
Rules subject to change based on community need.
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What boggles my mind is that people actually spend LOTS of money to buy those award thingies and they send that to each other, the abject level of consoomerism.
And of course all those mods working FOR FREE, generating content and ad revenue for Reddit and getting shit in return, in fact they tried some small rebellion with the 3rd party API thing a few months back and Reddit admins told them to STFU and reopen the subs or face consequences... and they did, the level of narcissism to sell yourself for no money just to keep some sort of "status" as a mod... sad on so many levels.
Actually that's what people do to Mastodon and Lemmy operators, they donate money to the owners directly. I'm far more for that than psychologically manipulative advertising and marketing of the Edward Bernays style funding the site.
I think Reddit in 2022 should have returned to open source like they were in earlier decades, fully release the source code, became a non-profit corporation, fully disclosed their accounting / financed like Beehaw does, an been run by donations only - renouncing advertising. Openly publish moderation logs and openly disclose what they are removing / ongoing SPAM attacks, etc. Be the the long-form (not short-length Twitter-length) Google Search hit-results website leader that appeals to book readers ( Read-it ) length consumers.
Instead, they went the opposite of a non-profit Google Search engine destination for research and discussion and became a source of marketing and advertising content for Corporate America values / Elon Musk values.