Debian is Ditching X (Twitter) Citing These Reasons
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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.
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ok, that's just hilarious
The equivalent of IE being the last one to move to the fediverse lol
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nice hypothetical but no
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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!
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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
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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.
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Unfortunately the accounts listed under Social network accounts of Debian teams and Social network accounts of Debian contributors are almost exclusively Twitter accounts.
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Matrix and XMPP don't even pretend to be Discord replacements.
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That doesn't explain why they don't start a transition by posting to both the new platform and the old. And not including links to their new account on their websites.
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But they are replacements
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Good riddance. Stop using Nazi platforms and join the fediverse instead.
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its not surprising considering the overlap. many linux users are cryptofascists, i.e. luke smith
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Better. I'd say its fully on par with Discord, minus the dark patterns. There's a public Zulip instance where you can check it out.
