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Niléane Jul 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>

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Niléane Jul 12, 2024

Welp, that's one way to prove my point.

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@nileane Imagine boiling down relationships to something that ultimately can be replaced by cloning and artificial wombs, and not seeing the issue with that.

Indeed, once that technology is readily available, will they say that relationships have no value at all since they're not necessary for population growth? If they were at all consistent in their principles, they'd have to. But we both know they're hypocrites.

What a very weird perspective they have. Especially when that same weirdo is probably espousing overpopulation nonsense in other places, without ever noticing the incoherence.

There's also the implication that "expansion at all cost, whatever the cost" is necessarily the point of life. I think that the centuries have instead done a very good job of demonstrating /why/ imperialism and cancer philosophy (unlimited growth & expansion) are /not/ a good idea.