146

Grindr Won’t Let Users Say 'No Zionists' (www.404media.co)

submitted 4 weeks ago by technocrit@lemmy.dbzer0.com to c/privacy@lemmy.ml

23 comments fedilink hide all child comments

Grindr won’t allow users to add “no Zionists” to their profiles, but allows any number of other phrases that state political, religious, and ethnic preferences, according to 404 Media’s tests of the platform and user reports.

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.

you are viewing a single comment's thread
view the rest of the comments

[-] ExcessShiv@lemmy.dbzer0.com 37 points 4 weeks ago

I think they're hinting at you to tell them what these other solutions are

[-] eldavi@lemmy.ml 4 points 4 weeks ago* (last edited 4 weeks ago)

Nice try FBI agent! You've already enshitified all the legacy apps like Grindr and shut down rentboy et al (but left their straight counterparts alone). We've gone peer to peer to evade you and I'm not going to help you capture them; you're just going to have to talk to those icky gays yourself. Lol

[-] LiveLM@lemmy.zip 18 points 4 weeks ago

If you're gonna gatekeep, consider not saying anything at all.

[-] eldavi@lemmy.ml 1 points 3 weeks ago

the only gatekeeping happening here comes as a result of either your failure to ally or your own inability to connect with this vulnerable community and; with the same sentiment as your recommendation; consider reaching outside your hetero-normative circle.

[-] ExcessShiv@lemmy.dbzer0.com 7 points 4 weeks ago

Gosh darn it, y'all got me there...

this post was submitted on 26 Jul 2025

146 points (100.0% liked)

Privacy

41111 readers

551 users here now

A place to discuss privacy and freedom in the digital world.

Privacy has become a very important issue in modern society, with companies and governments constantly abusing their power, more and more people are waking up to the importance of digital privacy.

In this community everyone is welcome to post links and discuss topics related to privacy.

Some Rules

Posting a link to a website containing tracking isn't great, if contents of the website are behind a paywall maybe copy them into the post
Don't promote proprietary software
Try to keep things on topic
If you have a question, please try searching for previous discussions, maybe it has already been answered
Reposts are fine, but should have at least a couple of weeks in between so that the post can reach a new audience
Be nice :)

Related communities

much thanks to @gary_host_laptop for the logo design :)

founded 5 years ago

MODERATORS