Please consider that only applies for account verification during initial signup. While there can be some value in protecting vulnerable populations, actual use of their platform is a different story.

My problem is with the app more than my neighbors. There are plenty of a**holes everywhere, but the app lets their racism and transphobia fester. There are also plenty of people that have been banned from using the app because they list a preferred name as opposed to a legal name, which is definitely transphobic.

It’s also problematic because it prevents folks with non-European names from using a name that won’t draw a lot of attention they don’t want from said a**holes. I understand that is another much deeper issue in the US, but I can only do so much about that.