Debian is Ditching X (Twitter) Citing These Reasons

[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

[emergencyfood@sh.itjust.works]

Debian already has an ARM version. Do you mean some Qualcomm drivers are missing? There are already Ubuntu ROMs for Android phones, so this shouldn't be an issue, right?

[xor@lemmy.dbzer0.com]

yeah, it’s so inconvenient to not directly support the nazi platform

[mitm0@lemmy.world]

Good, now if only OpenSource devs switched from Discord to let's say Matrix/XMPP

We'd be partying

[ubergeek@lemmy.today]

Its that social inertia, and I get it.

I ran a neighborhood group's social media, and even after FB turned openly shitty, I had to stay on there, because thats where people are.

I mean, I could have pushed the org to drop them, but then we would have lost the eyeballs of thousands of neighbor's we're trying to work FOR.

Same deal with Twitter, they've just gotten to the point where most NPOs lose less by leaving than they would by staying.

[ubergeek@lemmy.today]

If I ran an org, that needed to reach a community of say... 1000 people in need, and 900 of those people were ONLY on twitter, guess what?

That org needs to be on twitter, even if President Musk is profiting from it. Otherwise, the org would be remiss in their mission.

[grrgyle@slrpnk.net]

God I hope I live to see the day. Discord at first appears like a good IRC wrapper, but the XP of actually using it is fucking gross.

[ubergeek@lemmy.today]

ok, that's just hilarious

The equivalent of IE being the last one to move to the fediverse lol

[xor@lemmy.dbzer0.com]

nice hypothetical but no

[utopiah@lemmy.ml]

Yeay, Debian user here who also left Twitter/X for similar reasons. I was already on Mastodon and Bluesky but didn't make a habit out of it. Leaving the bad platform entirely (and having my data archived and searchable) helped a lot.

Glad to hear they moved on!

[gofsckyourself@lemmy.world]

This is a great example of where linking to a blog post about an announcement is better than linking to the announcement itself:

after digging a bit deeper, I discovered that there was originally a longer, more detailed announcement that was later scrapped. I found it in a GitLab commit made by Jean. [Link to GitLab comment in article]

Good job, itsfoss.com

[ubergeek@lemmy.today]

Not really a hypothetical though. Its the very reason I kept a non-profit's account on twitter, and facebook, and instagram, for as long as I did - Because we HAD to in order to effectively hit the mission for the non profit.

[ericjmorey@programming.dev]

Unfortunately the accounts listed under Social network accounts of Debian teams and Social network accounts of Debian contributors are almost exclusively Twitter accounts.

[ericjmorey@programming.dev]

Matrix and XMPP don't even pretend to be Discord replacements.