Debian is Ditching X (Twitter) Citing These Reasons
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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.
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I think the argument is that those alternatives already existed before. Twitter was not being prioritized. So effectively, there's one less place where the news will be visible.
However, I do agree with the move, but only because Debian being a FOSS initiative should stay away from proprietary platforms and promote FOSS, even if it means effectively "shutting off" a portion of users who not wanna leave the twitter bubble.
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First it is reinventing the wheel, xmpp exists for a very long time, second there are only a few server implantations, third the resource consumption of them is so high that you can't really run it reliably oh a raspberry pi for your family
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Fuck X.com, all my homies use wayland.social
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Ship ship ship!
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Point taken (Although I don't see any issues with re-inventing the wheel), I really wished XMPP had riddiculously good bridging capabilities
Then XMPP Would be perfect
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I'd even say, the usefullness is fully gone.
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If you ask me, this looks like a big possibility, as X/Twitter's evident bias towards the newly established U.S. government and their favoring of one demographic over the other could have set off Debian's move.
That's just me speculating, though.
No, you got it right. I get that you need to cover your ass to avoid a lawsuit, but it's exactly because a guy who loves the adoration of nazis owns the platform.
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Adding a bit more context, X.Org/X11 is often just called X for short
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It's not loading for me. Is that instance up?
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The answer (IMO) is to open another channel and announce it so people can migrate. And start using more the other channels, using each time FB/X a little less, until (almost) everyone has left FB/X.
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You're forgetting the (often) free labor used to make changes like this are limited.
I, for example, did not get paid for the 20 hrs/week I was putting into the organization, as I was also a board member, their IT person, and for a couple of periods, board president...
Its a cost/benefit analysis.
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Open another channel and tell everyone that the main channel is the new one. And tell them how to join the new channel, step by step.
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Find the RSS viewer in Chrome or Firefox
