Debian is Ditching X (Twitter) Citing These Reasons
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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
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You're just supporting whichever platform censors what you don't like.
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Gonna ignore you bud.
Hope you find peace someday.
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Yeah sounds about right, enjoy your failed state.
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There will be peace when we have killed enough Nazis.
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Right. Just completely ignore the disparity in wealth...
Gonna ignore you now btw. Goodbye.
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Were they using X to provide updates exclusively?
My impression from the post is that they are publishing the exact same updates in multiple locations, including https://framapiaf.org/@debian
I do agree with the move, but only because Debian being an open source project should stay away from proprietary platforms.. not because they were somehow shutting people off by publishing the news in more places.
