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Lyft is introducing a new feature that lets women and non-binary riders choose a preference to match with drivers of the same gender.

The ride-hailing company said it was a “highly requested feature” in a blog post Tuesday, saying the new feature allows women and non-binary people to “feel that much more confident” in using Lyft and also hopefully encourage more women to sign up to be drivers to access its “flexible earning opportunities.”

The service, called “Women+ Connect,” is rolling out in the coming months. Riders can turn on the option in the Lyft app, however the company warns that it’s not a guarantee that they’ll be matched with a women or non-binary person if one of those people aren’t nearby. Both the riders and drivers will need to opt-in to the feature for it work and riders must chose a gender for it to work.

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[–] SeducingCamel@lemm.ee -4 points 2 years ago (1 children)
[–] Tb0n3@sh.itjust.works 1 points 2 years ago (1 children)

Sorry for not being a piece of shit.

[–] SeducingCamel@lemm.ee -3 points 2 years ago (1 children)

The opposite actually, you'd prefer to platform outright hateful people than aggressively remove them to show that they aren't welcome.

[–] Tb0n3@sh.itjust.works 3 points 2 years ago (1 children)

You seem to equate in difference to all as agreement to the worst. That's not how any of this should work.

[–] SeducingCamel@lemm.ee -5 points 2 years ago (1 children)

Something something a Nazi walks into a bar, I'm sure you've read this story on here.

Being indifferent will just allow the problem to fester, sure maybe you aren't on the streets shouting down minorities with them, but you are just letting them go about doing their thing because they have this magical right to their terrible harmful opinions

[–] Tb0n3@sh.itjust.works 1 points 2 years ago (1 children)

That's only a problem if you have no rebuttal. Fight speech with speech. If you can't win, that's your problem.

[–] SeducingCamel@lemm.ee 1 points 2 years ago (2 children)

Ah yes, nazis, famous for listening to reason

[–] transigence@kbin.social 1 points 2 years ago (1 children)
[–] SeducingCamel@lemm.ee 0 points 2 years ago

And the audience doesn't need to be exposed to that crap in the first place

[–] Tb0n3@sh.itjust.works 0 points 2 years ago

You think the point is to convince them otherwise? That would be nice but no. The point is to make sure others aren't convinced by their arguments. If there's nobody else around to be convinced then you just ignore them.