Debian is Ditching X (Twitter) Citing These Reasons

[zink@programming.dev]

That first reply highlights a major difference in how people approach the world.

Speaking very generally, conservatism and right wing politics seen to attract those who see everything as a competition and that dominating other people is what it means to be a good person. Funny that it also leads to frustrated, angry, isolated people.

So if we want to switch to using a website that doesn’t promote hurting/killing 2% of the population, we are now BOWING DOWN to the minority some of us would not rather murder.

It’s the same reason they hate DEI so much.

[ubergeek@lemmy.today]

Yep, it's viable now for many orgs...

[rational_lib@lemmy.world]

shutting out a significant portion of your community without seeking their input first isn't a sensible move for such a foundational open source project.

Ironic when X shuts out anyone who isn't logged in and shuts out anyone who doesn't pay for a blue checkmark from having visible replies.

[dojan@lemmy.world]

Oh my gods, the mess that is Teams. When I first started working at my current company I was kind of excited because all of the software just works together. It felt novel, and I was enchanted by it. That quickly died when I realised that it makes finding anything a nightmare. There's a billion different tabs and solutions for every single individual thing, and even multiple things within the same project. I think the main project I work on has like fifteen different test documents, and good luck trying to find the documentation for pushing stuff live! The only real way to find things is to ask someone who knows. There's half a billion different search bars and finding the right one is just way too time consuming.

[hulfpa@lemmy.ml]

There are ARM distros, yet the SnapDragon X Elite SOC is not yet supported fully. The drivers are a mess. They are progressing, but slowly probably due to the small number of people who would use it.

[lka1988@lemmy.dbzer0.com]

The "searchification" of fucking everything is driving me absolutely insane! No, I don't want a search bar to be the only way to find things, and hiding the actual file functions does nobody any favors.

[fff982@lemmy.ml]

Why politicize everything?

Simps for X (formerly twitter)

[programmingsocks@pawb.social]

Agreed. Notably, Bluesky doesn't require an account to read posts.

[ericjmorey@programming.dev]

I'm talking about posting on their website a link to alternative social media accounts.

[cheems@lemmy.world]

I don't respect Nazis

[mitm0@lemmy.world]

What's wrong with Matrix ?
Well there's SimpleX & GNU-Jami as well as Revolt

[prior_industry@lemmy.world]

Kinda wondering who in that community is going to bat for Elon Musk after the last two weeks.

[toastal@lemmy.ml]

Microsoft bought these social media platforms like LinkedIn & GitHub for this very reason. They want you stuck in their ecosystems …then train their proprietary AIs on you communications, then sell it back to you when you were the one that made it.

[prodajvodapavel@aggregatet.org]

citing concerns over values and diversity.

Sigh. It's always for the dumbest reasons that people leave these abusive platforms.

[toastal@lemmy.ml]

No.

It costs literally hundreds of thousands of USD per month to run your own node. If it isn’t accessible to the masses, it isn’t revolutionary. De facto centralization due to prohibitively expensive costs is effectively centralization—same reason we should not trust a platform like Matrix.

Bluesky is just another startup grifting with open washing. It has all the same VC-funded trappings where the history of Twitter will literally just repeat itself—like we didn’t see what happened with it the first time around.

Mastodon can improve its UX but some of these platforms are rotten to the core.

[dragonfucker@lemmy.nz]

Drag values not being a Nazi and X doesn't. This isn't a dumb reason to stop using it.

[toastal@lemmy.ml]

Nail on the head… it isn’t about one particular service or protocol but the philosophy of federation

[prodajvodapavel@aggregatet.org]

You're just supporting whichever platform censors what you don't like.

[fashim@lemmy.world]

Fuck off, placating Nazis does more damage to free speech than any of this.

It is a valid reason, it is also perfectly moral to use violence against Nazis.

[prodajvodapavel@aggregatet.org]

Gonna ignore you bud.

Hope you find peace someday.