Jason Koebler

New: Meta has deleted trans and nonbinary Messenger themes, as well as the blog posts announcing them. Happens the same week that it has changed its rules to allow users to say LGBTQ+ people are "mentally ill"

https://www.404media.co/meta-deletes-trans-and-nonbinary-messenger-themes/

Meta Deletes Trans and Nonbinary Messenger Themes

Amid a series of changes that allows users to target LGBTQ+ people, Meta has deleted product features it initially championed.

404 Media
Jan 10, 2025 at 5:09pmElk
Show threadVegardJan 10, 2025

@jasonkoebler Thanks, I'm deleting my Instagram account. Not that I was using it anyway. But now it's going away for good.

Edit: done

Show threadJames Trickle uPJan 11, 2025
@vegard @jasonkoebler Proud of you.
Show threadThibaultmol 🌈Jan 10, 2025
@jasonkoebler wow! WHAT A COINCIDENCE
Show threadCarrie ✌🏻🫀🤟🏻Jan 10, 2025
@jasonkoebler I have been on FB and people were calling all sorts of the LGBQIA community mentally ill... The sad part to me is that those people that really think that are probably suffering from a mental illness in their own lives.. I believe I the US a whole lotta mental illness goes undiagnosed. Therapy is life saving for real. Even if you dont think you need it. Just think of it as a check up..
Show threadProfessor_StevensJan 10, 2025

@jasonkoebler

That's reprehensible. It is also sycophantic, craven, and cruel. The most powerful people in our world could be heroes if they'd use their stations to stand up to Trump and his ignorant swarm. Instead, we are seeing them for the gutless toadies they really are, seeking yet another dollar they very definitely do not need, by kissing this vicious bastard's goddam ass.

Show threadJames Trickle uPJan 11, 2025
@Professor_Stevens @jasonkoebler All Billionaires are gutless toadies at heart. We need to defund the oligarchy, along the lines of what FDR did.
Show thread.ｂｅｅｊａｙJan 10, 2025
@jasonkoebler Couldn‘t care less. I really don’t care what they do on their site. It‘s a private service. if I don’t like it, I don’t use it (I for myself really don’t!). Their house, their rules, just like on any other platform including mastodon.
Show threadVox and the Pack Jan 10, 2025

@beejay @jasonkoebler totally irrelevant when one of the largest social media platforms chooses to openly cozy up with bigots and remove protections for marginalized individuals.

This was sarcasm.

Must be nice having your privilege.

Show threadPurple🐘Jan 10, 2025
@jasonkoebler @beejay @alexocado 💯
Show thread@pineywoozle ‘s #3WordNoteJan 10, 2025
@beejay Well aren’t you an easy block. @jasonkoebler
Show threadMakyrisJan 10, 2025
@beejay @jasonkoebler But they offered the themes for years and are taking them away now for no valid business reason, just cruelty. Yes that warrants backlash.
Show threadmoanosJan 10, 2025
@beejay The nice thing of you would be to care because it affects other people, people in a probably less privileged situation than you are in
Show threadBrent Pruitt :: ArtistJan 10, 2025

@jasonkoebler

color schemes make you trans. color themes destroy gender.

color theory rules!

🏳️‍🌈🏳️‍⚧️✊🏿🦄

Show threadhsarfarazJan 10, 2025
@jasonkoebler stooping to a new low…tech bro bias keeps on giving, the toxicity that #Meta and similar platforms enable should be enough for users to deny them any access to their data including $$$$
Show threadDaniel GerberJan 10, 2025
@jasonkoebler more free speech by less options? ridiculous
Show threadmarkJan 10, 2025
@jasonkoebler and they are about to drop all internal DEI because they don't want the existence of a policy to give the impression of unfairness
Show threadMakyrisJan 10, 2025
@jasonkoebler Omg they removed *themes*, wtf? What could be more innocuous and sweet than a theme. They are no longer saying they won't protect us anymore, they are saying they are now part of the world that will actually *harm* us. I'm so glad I deleted all my Meta accounts!
Show threadJohn A. WojtowiczJan 10, 2025

@jasonkoebler
Thank you for your post.
The really mentally ill are the owners and managers of META.

Peace

Show threadv̾i̾t̾r̾i̾o̾l̾i̾x̾Jan 10, 2025
@jasonkoebler @billyjoebowers Zuck is really going full maga. Those two are meant for each other
Show threadJames Trickle uPJan 11, 2025
@jasonkoebler Left Meta years ago... FB, Insta, Messenger. Never joined Threads. Saw that Zuck was leading the business to destroy the live and let live society where we all work together.... that he is on the wrong side of history, on the side of hate and fascism. Every time I am confirmed that I was right to do this, I still feel sad.
Show threadDoreen32128 ready to rumble!Jan 11, 2025
@jasonkoebler Wow! They are wasting no time dropping the facade.
Show threadForbearanceJan 11, 2025
@jasonkoebler all the other themes are now Shame Themes