Talya (she/her) 🏳️‍⚧️✡️Jul 13, 2024

LGBT and Marginalized Voices Are Not Welcome on Threads
by @nileane

https://www.macstories.net/stories/lgbt-and-marginalized-voices-are-not-welcome-on-threads/

cc @FediPact

#FediBlockMeta #Threads #Fedipact #FediBlockThreads

LGBT and Marginalized Voices Are Not Welcome on Threads

<p>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. Meanwhile, Meta shipped its own textual social media platform, Threads. The...</p>

Talya (she/her) 🏳️‍⚧️✡️Mar 27, 2024

any instance that does not defederate from #Threads may and should be assumed to be unsafe for trans people.
https://glaad.org/smsi/report-meta-fails-to-moderate-extreme-anti-trans-hate-across-facebook-instagram-and-threads/

#Meta #Instagram #FediblockMeta #FediblockThreads #BlockThreads #Fedipact

Report – Unsafe: Meta Fails to Moderate Extreme Anti-trans Hate Across Facebook, Instagram, and Threads | GLAAD

GLAAD’s Social Media Safety Program reported the following anti-trans hate content across Instagram, Facebook, and Threads; Meta deemed all of it non-violative or did not take action on it.

GLAAD | GLAAD rewrites the script for LGBTQ acceptance.
Show threadHistoPol (#HP) 🏴 🇺🇸 🏴Jul 7, 2023

@vantablack

"Threads threatens to muscle in on Mastodon's Fediverse and admins are up in arms about it

By Katie Wickens

Privacy concerns have lead to petitions being signed to keep Meta out."

#BlockThreads
#FediBlockThreads
#NoMetaHordes
#BlockMeta
#FediblockMeta

https://www.pcgamer.com/threads-threatens-to-muscle-in-on-mastodons-fediverse-and-admins-are-up-in-arms-about-it/

Threads threatens to muscle in on Mastodon's Fediverse and admins are up in arms about it

Privacy concerns have lead to petitions being signed to keep Meta out.

PC Gamer
Show threadHistoPol (#HP) 🏴 🇺🇸 🏴Jul 6, 2023

@tshirtman @[email protected]

(4/4)

...personally identifiable information (PIF) on its users is essential.

Even if (today 😉 -- see #France's moves towards a #SurveillanceState in my TL*) you live in a liberal democracy, you might be endangering not-infosec savvy Fedizens who are not e.g. in the aforementioned countries or several of the Arabian countries, e.g. #Iran.

IMHO

#BlockMeta
#FediblockMeta

#BlockThreads
#FediblockThreads

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https://mastodon.social/@HistoPol/110503083766962766