Debian is Ditching X (Twitter) Citing These Reasons

[that_devil_girl@lemmy.ml]

As it turns out, having an account on a social media platform full of Nazis, violent racists, and child diddlers is not good for business.

[fine_sandy_bottom@discuss.tchncs.de]

Oh but look at this deleted draft PR release that was committed that doesn't really say anything spicy and was later sharpened up to reflect the intentions of the author.

[svcross@lemmy.world]

I don't mind, actually everyone should ditch Twatter.

[fine_sandy_bottom@discuss.tchncs.de]

Yeah what the fuck is with that.

It's a very twitter centric view of the web. If you're not on xitter you're "shutting out a significant portion".

The thing is, it's not simply that Musk has an ideology that is disparate from my own, he has an agenda that is egregiously contrary to the stated values of the Debian project.

You'd consult with the community over a new logo or blog layout maybe, but on whether to assist Musk in his far right agenda there's not really any decision to be made honestly.

[toastal@lemmy.ml]

& all the US-based corporate social media… Facebook, Instagram, Threads, WhatsApp, Snapchat, Reddit, Discord, LinkedIn, & GitHub

[ziltoid1991@lemmy.world]

Does Wayland has its own Mastodon instance? If yes, they could do a funny.

[underscores@lemmy.dbzer0.com]

For now that was just a bot mirroring posts. I don't think they've said whether they'll use that going forward.

[lemmyseizethemeans@lemmygrad.ml]

Debian: the OG. The boss. The king.

[loaexmachina@sh.itjust.works]

Everybody just has a good time

[svcross@lemmy.world]

In any case, RSS should be enough.

[warl0k3@lemmy.world]

... Debian was on twitter??

[umbrella@lemmy.ml]

all of the corporate social media tbh. federation is the way out of this cycle.

[hulfpa@lemmy.ml]

Now I wish they had an ARM Qualcomm distro. Been hoping for a Linux distro for my Snapdragon X Elite machine. Now Debian had taken a stand for something they will probably be my distro once there is Linux support for my machine!

[refalo@programming.dev]

Care to explain?

[theimpressivex@lemm.ee]

The X Window System (aka X.Org or X11) has been the default window system in many distros. Recently there has been a new window system called Wayland, so the joke would be that Debian is dropping X11 and switching to Wayland.

[jubilantjaguar@lemmy.world]

"640k should be enough for anybody"

[jubilantjaguar@lemmy.world]

I keep making the incorrect assumption that everyone

Nicely concise description of bubble-dwelling.

[dudeimmacgyver@sh.itjust.works]

Wild that so many are still hanging out at the Nazi bar

[bali@lemmy.world]

Great news, Thank you Debian community!

[auli@lemmy.ca]

There are lots of brands and people still on X and try to justify it with hand waving.