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Even though millions of people left Twitter in 2023 – and millions more are ready to move as soon as there's a viable alternative – the fediverse isn't growing.1 One reason why: today's fediverse is unsafe by design and unsafe by default – especially for Black and Indigenous people, women of color, LGBTAIQ2S+ people2, Muslims, disabled people and other marginalized communities. ‌

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[-] SuperSleuth@lemm.ee 6 points 1 year ago

Firstly, WTF is LGBTAIQ2S+?. Secondly, I haven't experienced any more bigotry here than I would on any other social media platform.

[-] thenexusofprivacy 6 points 1 year ago

From the article:

I'm using LGBTQIA2S+ as a shorthand for lesbian, gay, gender non-conforming, genderqueer, bi, trans, queer, intersex, asexual, agender, two-sprit, and others (including non-binary people) who are not straight, cis, and heteronormative. Julia Serrano's trans, gender, sexuality, and activism glossary has definitions for most of terms, and discusses the tensions between ever-growing and always incomplete acronyms and more abstract terms like "gender and sexual minorities". OACAS Library Guides' Two-spirit identities page goes into more detail on this often-overlooked intersectional aspect of non-cis identity.

[-] SuperSleuth@lemm.ee 1 points 1 year ago

Crap, we're actually supposed to read the article?

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