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. ‌

  • SuperSleuth@lemm.eeEnglish
    51·
    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.

    • The Nexus of Privacy@lemmy.sdf.orgOPEnglish
      4·
      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.

    • P03 Locke@lemmy.dbzer0.comEnglish
      1·
      1 year ago

      A terrible idea by the LGBT community to expand the definition, when they thought they already “won” the battle and wanted to expand their scope, completely ignoring how marginalized the trans community was at that point, and how much was still left to fight for LGB rights. People quickly objected and most threw away the dumb acronym.

      • be_excellent_to_each_other@kbin.social
        1·
        1 year ago

        I kinda thought the ever-expanding acronym problem was being informally solved by a gradual transition to just saying “Queer.”

        I am not a member of any of the groups that would fall under that categorization though, so I may be wrong.

        • The Nexus of Privacy@lemmy.sdf.orgOPEnglish
          3·
          1 year ago

          It’s tricky … many people do use “queer” as an umbrella term, but a lot of trans people don’t like being lumped under that, and some lesbian, gay, bi, and agender people don’t consider themselves queer. There aren’t great answers.