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Sam_Bass , (edited )

Pretty sure thats how the south african shitstain has it set up

StaySquared ,

What’s there to complain about? I thought X was a chit hole for fascists, nazis, and right-wingers? Isn’t reddit good enough?

DarkCloud ,

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

nifty ,
@nifty@lemmy.world avatar

Which is? Blue sky? Mastodon? Lobste.rs?

FlyingSquid ,
@FlyingSquid@lemmy.world avatar

Is there a ‘best social media’ for anyone?

VerticaGG ,

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

jeffw OP ,

A lot of science/research is just confirming things that seem intuitive

VerticaGG ,

Oh ofc…and i wanted to use this moment to point out tge real-world outcomes that people are experiencing, because it’s all too easy to fall into the trap of perceiving it as solely hypoyhetical. (Nearly wrote it off myself as “well, itll be nothing but bots soon”…but im tryna illustrate it just aint that simple)

sugar_in_your_tea ,

This sounds like a general issue of: if you’re at the margins of society, you’re going to have a bad time on social media. Social media is a distillation of the majority opinion on things (i.e. the most extreme versions of majority opinions), and if the majority is intolerant, you’ll get the worst of the intolerance.

For example, society’s general perception is that sex work is gross, so the most extreme view of that is that sex work is literally corrupting our kids, so you’ll get that kind of pushback on social media. A lot of people are uncomfortable with LGBT issues, so the most extreme form of that is attacking LGBT people. Unpopular opinions tend to get attacked, extreme forms of popular opinions tend to stay and get boosted (usually the extreme form is hidden 3-4 levels deep in a discussion thread).

VerticaGG ,

Important to remind people that it’s not theoretical when we talk about it. It’s real human beings that are being scapegoated. It’s real abusers that get a smokescreen.

sugar_in_your_tea ,

I 100% agree, which is a huge part of why I don’t engage much with social media. Lemmy is literally it for me.

I’m not in a marginalized group, I just refuse to engage with that nonsense. I don’t have any solutions for those who are impacted, other than try to build real-world connections with people. Maybe local meetups are a good option here, idk.

Good luck out there! Stay safe!

VerticaGG ,

Thanks. Vest advice I have to any person looking to help, is dont just be a passive ally. Step up as an accomplice. When there’s a police protected parade of alt-right demonstrators, show them that they’re outnumbered. The SRA does a good job of that, as one example.

The other advice is that whatever space you exist in, be proactive in showing bigots that there’s no place at the table at your club.

To anyone reading: Just dont do nothing. You are as powerful as your solidarity.

todd_bonzalez ,

That’s a hot take in a world where Gab exists.

trashgirlfriend ,

Gab is fucking irrelevant though

Tattorack ,
@Tattorack@lemmy.world avatar

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

timmymac ,

Social media is what you make of it.

Adderbox76 ,

In other breaking news: Water continues to be wet. We’ll bring you live updates as they become available. Back to you, Tim.

nednobbins ,

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

lltnskyc ,

Oh no, they don’t censor every opinion I don’t like, don’t remove every post that does not align with my worldviews as disinformation, and don’t forbid people to say bad words towards me while allowing me to do same towards them, what a horrible place!

zbyte64 ,

I don’t use corporate social media anymore, is Facebook actually taking on misinformation now?

lltnskyc , (edited )

I don’t use it either, but wikipedia (and common knowledge) suggests they do like censoring everything en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Censorship_by_Facebook

ealoe ,

Facebook (Meta) actually has a cutting edge team that researches and fights disinformation, they publish some really cool research every few months I recommend reading it. Unfortunately, their efforts amount to pissing on a wildfire that the rest of the company is doing its best to dump gasoline on, since that team is under-resourced compared to the teams tasked with increasing user engagement.

Cyberflunk ,

X is the worst social media app. Ftfy

willow ,
@willow@discuss.tchncs.de avatar

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

DudeImMacGyver ,

I take exception to this title for being unnecessarily long, it should just read:

X is the worst social media app

JIMMERZ ,

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.

afraid_of_zombies ,

It had its moments. Back in the day I had all the libraries and park feeds in my area on it. Could just plan out my week with my kids in one spot. Yes I tried using a RSS reader but the websites weren’t as updated as the Twitter feeds were.

bigschnitz , (edited )

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

MajinBlayze ,

X is the w

bigschnitz ,

*words hahaha

MajinBlayze ,

That makes more sense

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