NiléaneJul 12, 2024

LGBT and Marginalized Voices Are Not Welcome on Threads https://www.macstories.net/stories/lgbt-and-marginalized-voices-are-not-welcome-on-threads/

Here’s a story that I wish I didn’t have to write. But it’s high time that we make this a central point anytime, anywhere Threads is pictured as a decent alternative to Twitter and Mastodon. It is only that if you’re a straight, white male.

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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>

Show threadNiléaneJul 12, 2024
Welp, that's one way to prove my point.
Show threadAaron  

@nileane I find it amusing how the people who are the most “secure” in their values are the ones most “offended” when they see something they don’t like.

May that person suck a bag of dicks.

Jul 12, 2024 at 5:36pmWeb
Show threadFluffy Kitty CatJul 12, 2024
@Aaron @nileane as a very marginalized person I literally can't do that, else I'd always been offended 24/7 by a world that's actively hostile to my existence. these chucklefucks seek us out to get offended at us
Show threadAaron  Jul 12, 2024

@fluffykittycat @nileane It’s ridiculous that people have such outrage over other people simply existing. It kills me that people who are marginalized have to feel threatened daily for just being.

I’m sorry that idiots have to make life so hard for you and others. Nobody deserves that.

Show threadFluffy Kitty CatJul 12, 2024
@Aaron @nileane I feel like a weed growing out of a crack in the sidewalk, hoping to go undisturbed and not get doused in herbicide