Debian is Ditching X (Twitter) Citing These Reasons
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Those replies are why they are leaving. And good riddance to such a godawful platform.
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I don't mind opposing views. I do mind views that say some of my family members or some of my friends should kill themselves. I have no business on a platform that allows such hateful conduct, end of story.
It's a matter of basic decency and respect.
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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.
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Yep, it's viable now for many orgs...
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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.
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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.
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Why politicize everything?
Simps for X (formerly twitter)
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Agreed. Notably, Bluesky doesn't require an account to read posts.
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I'm talking about posting on their website a link to alternative social media accounts.
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I don't respect Nazis
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Kinda wondering who in that community is going to bat for Elon Musk after the last two weeks.
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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.
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citing concerns over values and diversity.
Sigh. It's always for the dumbest reasons that people leave these abusive platforms.
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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.
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Drag values not being a Nazi and X doesn't. This isn't a dumb reason to stop using it.
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Nail on the head… it isn’t about one particular service or protocol but the philosophy of federation
