You guys are all conspiracy theorists.
What actually happened: someone who knew someone at Grindr said “man, anti-zionism is really gaining ground on Grindr, huh?” The Grindr employee said “Huh?” “Oh yeah, its like on every other profile.” “Huh…”
Then a few employees chat about it, until someone mentions it to their ad exec, who says “HWAT???” The ad exec knows that the Israeli government is committing war crimes - but they also know that as soon as the right wing media picks up on this, Grindr will become the “the secret deviant app for jew-hating gay nazis”, and they DO NOT want to spend their weekend handling that shit storm.
Hence the rule.
You can still say “Pro Palestine” in your bio.
This sounds like someone who actually did software dev
Correct
If that were the case, the exec needs to be fired, because this is an obvious shit storm waiting to blow in from the opposite direction
I mean, its possible you’re correct. But my point is that, no, Grindr is probably not, like, run by the zionists. It’s just trying to stick to a good policy for anyone to stick to - don’t get involved in a conflict in the middle east.
Oh no… Some liberals will be angry…
Anyway.
I’m really confused. Do you think your theory is better?
Certainly more based on reality. OP could’ve also simply used a single word:
“money”
Morally better? I mean, I think so - wanting to stay out of a conflict, to me, seems more morally defensible than actively supporting the bad side. It isn’t the perfect moral position, but I think it is better.
More likely on a factual basis? Yes. Absolutely.
Semantics. That’s what this seems to boil down to.
And, no, they did not “stay out of a conflict” by capitulating (in advance even) to Zionists’ apartheid views of the world.
I mean, this is literally the basis of the trolley problem, and the divergence of several major schools of moral thought.
Umm. No. No offense, but that’s patently ridiculous.
A corporation chose a distasteful policy to avoid the possibility of losing profits due to negative press. There are no lives at risk. The only risk is “brr! line must go up”
To equate such morally detestable behavior to minimizing actual suffering and loss is bizarre and nonsensical at best. At worst, it’s nothing more than helping whitewash the vile and disgusting crimes of an apartheid warmongering regime.
There is no nuance here. They capitulated to genocidal bigotry to maximize profits.
Not difficult to realize why when you realize who owns it along with many of the other dating apps.
Don’t be antisymptomatic
All of them are owned by the same group of christofascists aren’t they?
Grindr is from the Jews too?!?
‘No bigots’ should cover it, shouldn’t it?
It’s a big group on their platform.
Zionism is gay
That makes it sound appealing though
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Did Grindr get paid by the ADL or something? Either way it could be bypassed by just saying “no genocide apologists” lol
“No ethnic nationalists”
The RNC is in town but our sever isn’t crashing; why’s that?
Looks like the community needs a foss alternative
There’s Alovoa. Unfortunately, last time I checked, there were not many people on there
I think it could happen, but it would have to be a foss app and a paid service or funded by ads, because you need paid people to moderate services like that, moderation on lemmy is about civility and people being mean to eachother, but moderation on a dating app might involve dealing with sexual assault and other illegal things in a much more prominent way. Or it would have to be funded by a government or charity which is not very likely in the present.
Could probably crowd fund professional mods and infrastructure. Was always confused that the counter culture types don’t do more underground things like that over using rainbow capitalism. But I’m not part of that world so I have no real idea
Tbh it’s been terrible lately. Free services increasingly go behind a paywall, they’ve limited how many convos you can have (invisibly, they just fall off), they show you fewer and fewer people.
The fediverse could be really useful in the dating space - capitalism means they never really want you to find The One, because then you might delete the app.
I better go check for myself…
And?
Grindr police gottem ☹️
To be fair, referring to someone as Zionist has long been a dog whistle to certain hateful groups. When used precisely it does not include most Jewish folks but it was commonly not used precisely. Chances have elevated in recent events that someone is accurately using the word, but even then seeing their long used lingo echoed now using the correct meaning has seemingly vindicated their long held belief.
You’re on the wrong site my dude
Yeah - people who are saying “no zionists” want to say “no jews”.
It says in the article that you can still say “no Jews” and the only phrase that they found was banned was “no Zionists”
that was so hard to believe I checked the article myself, and here’s the quote:
Several users received an error message that says “The following are not allowed: no zionist, no zionists,” when they tried to add the phrases to their bios on Thursday. I tested this myself on a new Grindr account, and received the same error message. I was able to add “Zionist” to my profile (without “no”), however, and could also add any phrase I could think of: “no Arabs,” “no Blacks,” “no Palestinians,” “no Muslims,” “no Christians,” “no Jews,” “no trans,” “no Republicans,” “no Democrats,” and so on. “No Zionist[s]” was the only phrase that was blocked in my testing.
Ah, time for new lingo to pop up.
I propose we go with “no zucchinis”
It’s both innuendo, and can convey the word for Zionist
What if we really don’t like actual zucchinis? “No green summer squash” doesn’t have the same ring.
Also, how are we supposed to exclude Zion Williamson fans?
In the Matrix the last human city was called Zion. they lived under the ground where it was still warm. Essentially Cave Dwellers. So just call them dwellers. “No Dwellers”
Not sure if you intended this double entendre but https://lgbtqia.wiki/wiki/Zucchini is already associated with platonic relationships in a queer context. Which I could see as being useful cover for a hookup app, but just making sure.
Are there platonic hookups on grindr??
Someone unalived all these zucchinis
No Z-words
Let’s take these serious for a moment and pretend that anti zionist = nazi
and zionist = jew
Does grindr really want that Jews meet up with nazis unexpectedly in a private place?
Nazis on Grindr? You must be kidding. No self respecting nazi would ever choose to be gay…
/s just in case that needed to be stated…
They’re not gay! They just happen to have SSA (Same sex attraction)
/s
Oh please, it’s always the bible thumping hellfire preaching black man lynching baptist pastor/senator that is caught with three underage dicks in his mouth in an airport men’s room. ALL nazis are gay.
Damned Bible humpers.
some of the cutest furry art works were made by gay nazis
The nazi presence in the furry movement is really under estimated by people who’re outside the subculture. There’s, like… there’s a lot of them in there, guys. Recruiting from persecuted groups is already standard operating procedure for fascists, and the furry community notoriously has both money, a great deal of practice at forming groups that insulate their members from criticism, and a real serious problem with sexism. Unfortunately, it makes for the ideal environment to grow far-right movements.
That’s… informative.
People don’t seem to grasp what “Nazi” actually means anymore. That these people literally want to murder others on a large scale.
Clearly, other ideologies are also blocked then correct? Like, you can’t say, “no Christian nationalists” or “no white nationalists” or “no fascists” or “no Neo-Nazis” or “no MAGA”. Right? Right?? You have to accept and expose yourself to all dangerous ideologies equally.
from the article:
Several users received an error message that says “The following are not allowed: no zionist, no zionists,” when they tried to add the phrases to their bios on Thursday. I tested this myself on a new Grindr account, and received the same error message. I was able to add “Zionist” to my profile (without “no”), however, and could also add any phrase I could think of: “no Arabs,” “no Blacks,” “no Palestinians,” “no Muslims,” “no Christians,” “no Jews,” “no trans,” “no Republicans,” “no Democrats,” and so on. “No Zionist[s]” was the only phrase that was blocked in my testing.
What is Grindr?
Gay hook-up/dating app that pre-dates Tinder. In fact, it inspired Tinder.
I always thought it was the other way around, TIL!
It’s an app that republican politicians use to get dates while on the road campaigning or at conventions.
Cmon, no need to associate a popular gay dating app with republicans like it’s a bad thing. Enough to criticize the party for without bringing sexuality into it.
Honestly, if these republican leaders were honest and open about their homosexuality, I’d respect that. But they push strong anti-gay policies, gussied up as “family values,” and then when they’re out in the road away from their families they hit up Grindr. That I can’t respect. Gotta call out that hypocrisy.
I am sorry if that bothers you.
Fair enough, thanks for explaining!
It’s referencing the spikes the app sees whenever there’s a republican event around.
“On the night of July 17—the Sunday that check-in for the [Republican National] convention began—there was a 120 percent increase in users online in the area, more than all previous evenings in July. As of last Wednesday, a representative from Grindr tells Broadly, “more than a thousand guys have used the app near the Quicken Loans Arena.” The total attendance of the RNC is estimated to have been roughly 20,000 people, so this data suggests about five percent of attendees used Grindr during the convention.”
https://www.vice.com/en/article/cleveland-was-bombarded-with-white-dudes-on-grindr-during-the-rnc/Imagine making an arena sport out of quicken loans
No.
Too late, I already did, now speedbanking is in the olympics
Still better than Raygun
They bring sexuality into it with their policies. This is criticizing their hypocrisy about sexuality.
a dating/hookup app for LGBT+ people
i thought it was just for Gay people.
It started as that, but when you have an app designed for hookups and sex, turns out what type of a person you are in bed and what’s between your legs are actually very relevant information, so they just opened it up.
oh, makes sense
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