Social media users grapple with anti-LGBTQIA+ policy changes.
Leaving popular platforms such as Instagram could mean that LGBTQIA+ users lose the followings and communities they have built over years
Leaving popular platforms such as Instagram could mean that LGBTQIA+ users lose the followings and communities they have built over years
Grapple? I left Meta. There was no grappling.
It is almost as if content creators were all warned that would happen if they host everything on centralized platforms outside their control but nobody listened.
It'd be nice if things on Meta or X just stopped sucking but giving them exactly what they want (views and clicks) isn't the way to change their policies.
I'm currently working getting advertising going for my contracting business, and the number of people straight getting mad at me because I refuse to use Meta and Google is too damn high. I refuse to give Meta any business whatsoever, though I might do an SEO campaign with Google/bing.
Can you imagine explaining to someone in 1999 that a significant amount of politics in 2025 would surround what websites we decide to spend 12 hours a day on
Return the internet to its glory days of no rules anywhere, imho. Get rid of the crybullies in every corner of the internet by harassing them out of existence. Learn to shitpost with the rest of us.
