it is in no way just drag

West Virginia's legislature has a bill (with co-sponsors) making trans people being seen by minors "obscene" with a five year person term.

There's a lot of reporting and pretense that the new wave of anti-queer legislation - a record number of bills, by the way - is limited to targeting drag performances.

That's just the PR cover. It very much is not.

More at Mastodon

and the tools are following in

Companies who are on social media are setting up on Mastodon, which means that the companies that make the tools to make social media easier are also showing up on Mastodon.

-----
Buffer adds Mastodon to its social media management platform
Jon Henshaw | 01/17/2023

Buffer’s popular social media management software can now schedule and post to Mastodon servers. Coywolf has a first look at what it's like to connect and publish posts from Buffer to Mastodon.

The federated social media platform, Mastodon, has experienced explosive growth since Elon Musk bought Twitter. The popular Twitter alternative provides a decentralized social network that doesn’t have any advertising, gives control back to users, and thus far has been a haven for civil discourse. And as more people move to Mastodon, companies are establishing a presence and exploring how to use it for their brands.