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[–] [email protected] 125 points 5 months ago* (last edited 5 months ago) (2 children)

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

[–] [email protected] 38 points 5 months 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] 12 points 5 months ago (4 children)

Umm, does that include Lemmy?

[–] pivot_root 13 points 5 months ago

I hope you used protection!

[–] [email protected] 9 points 5 months 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] 7 points 5 months 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 5 months 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] 60 points 5 months ago* (last edited 5 months 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.

[–] Zerfallen 32 points 5 months 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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[–] Treczoks 60 points 5 months ago (1 children)

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

Fixed that for you.

[–] [email protected] 7 points 5 months ago (1 children)
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[–] nutsack 44 points 5 months ago (7 children)

what the fuck is x? you mean Twitter

[–] NickwithaC 30 points 5 months ago (1 children)

It's always ok to deadname twitter.

[–] [email protected] 13 points 5 months 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.

[–] FordBeeblebrox 6 points 5 months ago (3 children)

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

[–] [email protected] 14 points 5 months ago (1 children)

Tweet on twitter, take a Xit on the Xitter.

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[–] [email protected] 43 points 5 months ago

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

[–] Etterra 42 points 5 months 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] 39 points 5 months ago (3 children)

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

[–] [email protected] 36 points 5 months ago (3 children)

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

[–] tabular 23 points 5 months ago* (last edited 3 months ago)
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[–] [email protected] 6 points 5 months ago (1 children)

Mastodon is pretty great for queer people. Better than lemmy I would say

That's a bit of a weird thing to say if you ask me, as Lemmy and Mastodon is both just the fediverse and they are connected. So surely it just depends who/what you follow?

[–] [email protected] 11 points 5 months ago

They are connected but in practice there is definitely a big separation between lemmy and mastodon.. you see mastodon posts on mastodon, lemmy posts on lemmy. yes its possible to view lemmy posts on mastodon but its fucking garbage integration, i have never seen a lemmy posts boosted on mastodon it just doesn't happen.. if I see a mastodon post here its in the form of a screen shot.. the communities are effectively separate

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[–] Cyberflunk 34 points 5 months ago

X is the worst social media app. Ftfy

[–] paraphrand 33 points 5 months ago* (last edited 5 months 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.

[–] Etterra 29 points 5 months ago (3 children)

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

[–] pivot_root 9 points 5 months ago (2 children)

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

[–] [email protected] 7 points 5 months ago

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

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[–] [email protected] 7 points 5 months ago

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

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[–] [email protected] 14 points 5 months ago (2 children)

I'm surprised those scores are so high honestly

It's fuckin hard being queer on social media

[–] radicalautonomy 8 points 5 months 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] 8 points 5 months 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] 20 points 5 months ago* (last edited 5 months 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.

[–] Jakdracula 7 points 5 months 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] 15 points 5 months ago* (last edited 5 months ago) (3 children)

Worse than Truth Social? Press X to doubt.

[–] drislands 9 points 5 months ago* (last edited 5 months ago) (2 children)

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

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[–] baru 6 points 5 months ago (2 children)

Truth Social is just a way to get money to Trump. Scam/money laundering/bribing. With max a few million/year in revenue I wouldn't compare it to actual social media apps.

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[–] [email protected] 15 points 5 months ago (1 children)

Twitter has never been great, just easy to use and widely adopted. It’s gotten worse under Musk and mostly appeals to the worst people left on the platform.

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[–] [email protected] 15 points 5 months 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] 14 points 5 months 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.

[–] kokesh 13 points 5 months ago

I would say for everyone...

[–] [email protected] 10 points 5 months ago

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

[–] taiyang 9 points 5 months 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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[–] uebquauntbez 9 points 5 months ago

'X is the worst social media app' Period

[–] bigschnitz 8 points 5 months ago* (last edited 5 months ago) (3 children)

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

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[–] [email protected] 7 points 5 months 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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[–] Tattorack 7 points 5 months ago

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

[–] DarkCloud 7 points 5 months 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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