For what it's worth, I am hereby sending you the official signal that you should absolutely exist, that you have every right to be yourself, and that your continued existence is important and meaningful for yourself and others in similar situations especially. I hope you will forever be gifted with the courage to be yourself, even when the world is challenging you on it.

It's the village, not the individuals. Our society is fucking sick. I'm straight, but it (the intolerance and violence towards people who are different) makes me sick.

You listen to society? They're the ones that invented gender characteristics and stereotypes. If you listen to them there's a chance you'll get caught up in their bullshit instead of just being what you'd be if there was no other human on earth.

Is gender dysphoria not considered a health issue?? Legit asking. Like I thought the whole point of transitioning is that that is the treatment for it. That's not a BAD thing, but it is A thing. Calling gay people mentally ill is obviously non sense. Calling ALL trans people mentally ill I don't think is accurate... if they've actually transitioned lmao. Then they're not sick anymore ?? Plz let me know if that take is incorrect. Feel like having pre-transition gender dysphoria compared to other mental illnesses like anxiety/depression/etc is a positive thing because it normalizes it to a degree.

Big difference between them being... there IS actually a cure to gender dysphoria compared to many other mental illnesses that can only be treated. Arguing with a right winger about this shit, he said he felt bad for trans people and that they were mentally ill. My response was "yeah no shit, you realize the way to reduce their risk of suicide is by letting them get the care they and their doctors deem necessary. It's straight cruelty to acknowledge that it is something they need help with yet demonizing them for seeking help."

Guess the people saying shit like the headline aren't doing so with nuance in mind, and for them anyone trans at all = weird/mentally ill/sick.

Meta went all in on the VR Metaverse to woo the next generation and just shot themselves in the foot.

Businesses need to bring back email newsletters. And whatever celebrities or whatnot you care about need to too. The only reason I signed back up for either of those sites was to follow a local business for updates/sales/etc.

Facebook has about 3 billion users across the globe. That's just 500 million short of half the human population of the planet. At its height Twitter was around 360 million. And it's user base has only shrunk by 30 million or so since the douche bag took it over.

Facebook, on the other hand, has dug its hooks into everyone's personal lives to a point at which getting them to ditch Facebook would be like telling everyone to basically ditch their friends and family. No one is going to do that.

Twitter was an add-on. It was an extra. You could use it or not, nobody cared. It hadn't built a large enough user base to be so integral to people's social lives. TikTok, in about half the time twitter has existed, has basically eclipsed it in terms of monthly active users.

We have to accept this fact, Facebook has become an institution. And it should scare literally everyone that such a huge and powerful platform is owned by one single person with no real oversight whatsoever. That is why he was able to unilaterally decide to first censor Facebook at the beginning of the election and now uncensor it once an oligarch friendly president has been elected.

Everyone's so focused on DElon Husk's role in getting Trump elected, but all Zuckerberg needed to do was shut down the discourse on his platform so that the news couldn't flow. And now he's adopting the policies of Xwitter in an effort to win some favoritism from the incoming administration.

Reminder to get off Facebook and Instagram

Most of us are already out or lurking because of family or some specific group they can't do without.

The trick will be getting those people off the platform so we can cut all cords.

The mask has slipped because they know they can get away with it.

After all,this isn't anything forced on Meta, they are taking advantage of the incoming president being all for this and binning policies they clearly only follower reluctantly (and poorly).

Preach! But you know, not really.

I wrote my deletion post just a few hours ago actually. Cited sexism, homophobia, anti-immigration, no more fact-checking etc. I said I'd leave the account up for a few days in case anyone wanted to arrange a way to stay in contact (since I've had friends there since 2007), but after that I'm gone.

They won't.

U.S. Defamation law:

To prove prima facie defamation, a plaintiff must show four things: 1) a false statement purporting to be fact; 2) publication or communication of that statement to a third person; 3) fault amounting to at least negligence; and 4) damages, or some harm caused to the reputation of the person or entity who is the subject of the statement.

1. false statement. ✔️
2. publication ✔️
3. negligence proven by not understanding why it was banned from communications just recently on their platform ✔️
4. harm to the reputation of a person. (If 1 person believes or republished that information they have fulfilled 4 categories.)

I'd say your freedom of speech does not cover that at all because there was intent to harm others.

That's where things get even more worrying.

As it stands, he still has to abide by EU and British laws but then there's this:

That suggests that social media laws could be part of the negotiation with other countries who don't want to get wrecked by tariffs.

As weakening those laws will lead to an increase in unchallenged far right posts, they could have knock on effects in elections. Trump will have seen how effective the changes at Xitter were for him, so spreading that to other social media platforms is already a win for him but being able to impact the political landscape elsewhere would be a bonus - France and German are having problems fending off the far right and if they gained control they'd be a lot more compliant to his demands which has knock-on effects for the EU and NATO.

These changes are only happening in the US. They wouldn’t be allowed to do this in the EU anyway, not without being sued loads.

Does the metaverse even exist? Like is it a thing people use?

Don't insult us by association