Debian is Ditching X (Twitter) Citing These Reasons

[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.

[telorand@reddthat.com]

The other twist is, unlike Xitter, you don't have to create an account on Mastodon to be able to read their feed. You can access it like any other website. So nobody is getting shut out. They're just posting elsewhere, where anyone can read it.

[nossaquesapao@lemmy.eco.br]

Never underestimate the network effect and how reluctant people are to move to another social network. The masses just follow the crowd, so every big account moving out from there helps take more users away.

[scrollone@feddit.it]

Yes, I'm sadly surprised by many open source projects still posting on that cesspool

[scrollone@feddit.it]

I think Bluesky can be an exception. I think it's way better than Mastodon from a UX standpoint. And it's still open.

[krolden@lemmy.ml]

Because they allow smoking

[zante@slrpnk.net]

i am keeping a record of what just what it took, before people got off.

[far_university190@feddit.org]

And it's still open.

It like chromium, control by for profit vc company.

[llii@discuss.tchncs.de]

People just don't learn.

[naia@lemmy.blahaj.zone]

The problem is for organizations it's harder to leave because that is where the people you want to reach are. That's the only reason any org or company is on social media in the first place. If they leave too soon they risk too many people not seeing the things they send out to the community.

It's more an individual thing because so many people just have social inertia and haven't left since everyone they know is already there. The first to leave have to decide if they want to juggle using another platform to keep connections or cut off connections by abandoning the established platform.

[jhex@lemmy.world]

I didn't really need another reason to love Debian more but here we are... I'm donating to Debian today