Debian is Ditching X (Twitter) Citing These Reasons
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You don't even have to go to the website. Every Mastodon feed can be accessed via RSS. You just have to add ".rss" to the end of the URL.
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Arm is insanely fragmented, every device must be have dedicated drivers and hardcoded specific configuration in the kernel. Also Snapdragon X devices are not even fully supported upstream in the most recent kernel yet. Which means they are many years away from being supported in Debian. Unless someone makes a fork of Debian with latest kernel and not yet upstreamed Qualcomm specific patches (which how these "arm distros" are usually made).
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Having worked on a couple of Matrix deployments over the last year, that shit needs to be simpler and easier, yo? Once the Matrix server exists, it's easy enough to get people to use it.
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My townβs subreddit just started a policy to disallow links to X for similar reasons.
There is a movement to avoid the platform.
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Debian continues to be one of the best distros ever made. If I had the means, it would get funding every time I run apt update.
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https://forums.debian.net/ exists for Debian
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I'd make a blind bet on that over Matrix for suitability.
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It's a shame I haven't seen more YouTubers leaving X, they all seem to use it to talk about whatever they do. Not that I watch a lot of YouTube these days but my family does, younger ones especially watch those minecraft SMP types. Its arguably the most toxic social media but "everyone's on there".
I liked this article about the whole ordeal so I'll share it here: Why You'll Leave X as well as instagram and all other private platforms
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This is to me one of the major reasons Twitter discourse is completely ruined and the platform is mostly useless for seeing what people think now.
When the only people who get to be at the top of discussions are people who pay for twitter, the only opinions that get shared are those that are pro Twitter, pro Elon, etc. Because they have a direct stake in the game.
And that's if the people posting aren't all bots that pay for a checkmark to boost engagement.
So glad more people are leaving it. There's nothing to gain from it anymore.
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There are still a few nitter instances alive
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RSS to know when there's a new post on the blog.
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That's a very silly take
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Oh I like that rhythm.
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Corps and hearsay
Brought me to jail
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