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12. Lastly, this account will be kept open to keep others from taking it, and you can use it to search for information as an important repository for the future.
Thank you for letting us grow the way you have... and we will see you in bluer skies. We hope you'll join us.
11. You can also follow us at Bluesky at bsky.app/profile/erininthemo…, where we will continue bringing the hard hitting journalism you have come to rely upon.
10. Therefore, it is with a heavy heart but one filled with hope that I am announcing this will be our last post on this platform.
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9. Moreover, Bluesky has become a hub of information. Quality journalists have moved there, as have all major news networks. Many members of congress maintain accounts there now, and it is easier than ever to reach a large readership. Ours has nearly doubled since moving there.
8. Unlike twitter, one can reach outside of one's own bubble and have the quality civil conversations that matter. Twitter, meanwhile, has become an exercise in being limited to reaching the same group of people, drowned out by trolling and abuse.
7. Enter Bluesky, which reminds many of old twitter, but with added functionality. Community blocklists make it so that hate spam is quickly removed. Starter packs make it easy to find trusted voices to follow. Customized feeds are amazing, and links are not deprioritized!
6. This didn't just affect LGBTQ+ journalism, it affected all journalism. Finding information on climate, healthcare, politics, and more was an effort in sorting through AI, bot spam, grotesque hate content, and more. The signal to noise ratio plummeted.
5. As Musk began to censor words like cisgender, made it ok for people to call LGBTQ+ people groomers, funneled millions into anti-trans lobbying, deprioritized trans content, and allowed even explicit nazi content to flourish, the site became quite hard to use.
4. This platform increasingly became hostile towards LGBTQ+ people, especially with Musk's acquisition. Direct harassment of trans people proliferated, hate content and rage bait gained hundreds of millions of views, and finding quality conversations was hard.
3. When I began my reporting years ago on this platform, it was easier to have the important conversations. Hate content was not as common, and low quality harassment was often removed via decent, if sometimes slow, moderation.
2. Over the last year, twitter has deteriorated for LGBTQ+ journalism, and all journalism, as hate content, low quality spam, and harassment proliferate.
Bluesky has offered an alternative that is soaring for millions.
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1. I'm a leading trans journalist, and this will be my final post here.
Erin In The Morning is now making its move to Bluesky, as twitter is no longer fit for journalistic content.
Meanwhile, the new platform is soaring.
Subscribe to support my journalism, and follow us there.
Lastly, you should know that my journalism will not continue here. Tomorrow is my last day on twitter, and I have a long article I will be releasing explaining why. You can always find it at the good place, bl*sky, Tiktok, Threads, IG video, and at erininthemorning.com/subscri….
So please… if you fall into that camp, don’t follow me, heck, block me so you don’t have to read my reporting.
For those who do appreciate my work though, I will strive to give you the award-winning reporting on LGBTQ bills and politics that you won’t get anywhere else.
All this said… if you don’t like my reporting, you do not have to follow me. I balance stories of negative bills with stories of hope, fact checks, advice, and wins.
But when danger is clearly present, I’m not going to hold back because some people have extreme normalcy bias.
These are all extremely valid questions. This is to say nothing for what I am expecting to be the most extreme state legislative season ever seen for lgbtq people, and a Supreme Court decision that could overturn all equal protection for us.
In the aftermath of the election, there are a lot of moving pieces. Will the filibuster survive? Will reconciliation bypass it? Will Republicans convince 7 dem senators to balk after the ads? Will the buget have the 50 anti-lgbtq provisions? What will trump do by executive fiat?
Though not every bill is going to pass, the Overton window has lurched rightward every year. The “extreme impossible to pass” bills from two years ago were passed in a dozen states last year. Same for three years ago.
PSA for new readers: Over the next several months, I will be reporting about a lot of bills and moves Republicans are making to target trans people.
Every year, a small subsection of people accuse me of “fear mongering” around this time.
I think that’s shortsighted. Let’s talk.
