New social media platform Mastodon is a friendly place for LGBTQ people As Elon Musk continues his rapid dismantling of Twitter — laying off thousands of employees, scaring advertisers away, possibly violating FTC rules and bringing the company to the verge of bankruptcy — many people, especially LGBTQ people, are shifting to other social media platforms.
I am one of them. I actually abandoned Twitter years ago when it became a dumpster fire of far-right flames fanned by The Donald.
Even with the expanded post lengths, it is no place to have any kind of rational discourse, and it seems designed for quick and attention-getting blurts.
The amount of anti-LGBTQ posts I had noticed in recent years seemed to be increasing, and who needs more of that in their life?