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The rainbow flag or pride flag is a symbol of LGBT pride and LGBT social movements. The colors reflect the diversity of the LGBT community and the spectrum of human sexuality and gender. Using a rainbow flag as a symbol of LGBT pride began in San Francisco, California, but eventually became common at LGBT rights events worldwide.

Originally devised by the artists Gilbert Baker, Lynn Segerblom, James McNamara and other activists, the design underwent several revisions after its debut in 1978, and continues to inspire variations. Although Baker’s original rainbow flag had eight colors, from 1979 to the present day the most common variant consists of six stripes: red, orange, yellow, green, blue, and violet. The flag is typically displayed horizontally, with the red stripe on top, as it would be in a natural rainbow.

LGBT people and allies currently use rainbow flags and many rainbow-themed items and color schemes as an outward symbol of their identity or support. There are derivations of the rainbow flag that are used to focus attention on specific causes or groups within the community (e.g. transgender people, fighting the AIDS epidemic, inclusion of LGBT people of color). In addition to the rainbow, many other flags and symbols are used to communicate specific identities within the LGBT community.

reminders:

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  • 💙 Hexbear’s algorithm prioritizes comments over upbears
  • 💜 Sorting by new you nerd
  • 🌈 If you ever want to make your own megathread, you can reserve a spot here nerd
  • 🐶 Join the unofficial Hexbear-adjacent Mastodon instance toots.matapacos.dog

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    Tiktok kept trying to show me underage girls in skimpy clothes. I wasn’t interested in most of the algorithm so I think that is its basement level “oh try this it works for almost everyone” - except it didn’t work for me, I wasn’t interested, which is why I uninstalled it and never opened it again except for what friends show me. It’s celebrated, vaunted, praised algorithm completely bounced off me.

    I probably would’ve been happier with weird science shit and cutesy dnd stuff.

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      I recent got back onto tiktok, and despite being a cis bi man, it seems to think I’m a trans woman and/or lesbian due to all the videos I’ve liked out of solidarity to those commnities. Not really complaining though, most of their videos are funny as fuck.

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        I think I’ve decided I never want to download any of those apps, but now I’m just thinking of the possibility that my scruples end up putting me on an extremely strange algorithm because I also absolutely would be superego liking stuff I’m not really all that interested in.

        • someone [comrade/them, they/them]@hexbear.net
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          Even despite the past year+ shenanigans with tiktok’s algorithm, it’s still scary good at figuring out one’s preferences, and there’s a lot of good left-wing people on there. The trick is to make extensive use of the like button, it’s really as simple as that.