Debian is Ditching X (Twitter) Citing These Reasons
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Honestly I had the same thought. But on the other hand, internet outrage talking points have also become extremely formulaic...
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Thank you! This has always been my main gripe about "collaboration platforms" in general. It's just chat with extra steps, and nothing is easy to find.
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Just remove matrix from the alternatives and 100% agree, long live xmpp
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This is probably much closer to discord than Zulip is, tbh. I never knew about it previously
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how am i supposed to give you a better strategy when youāre just giving the vaguest possible āscenarioā.
hereās a good strategy:
donāt support naziās.
boycott all nazis.
they make money off advertising to users, by being a user, you are financially supporting nazisā¦ stop it.pretending like the only possible way to communicate with your desired audience is by supporting nazis is uncreative, ineffective, lazy, and destructiveā¦ that reasoning is why places like that continue to exist and grow.
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I want to move my music discord to a forum platform. Can anyone recommend a good FOSS forum with good iOS/mobile app support? Some of the musicians are going to resist if there isnāt a decent, usable, mobile app. Itās been a long time since I set up a forum. Last one I installed on a server was phpBB!
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The reasons (summarized using Copilot):
- The platform no longer aligns with Debian's values, social contract, code of conduct, and diversity statement.
- Concerns over X becoming a place where people they care about don't feel safe.
- Abuse on the platform happening without consequences.
- Issues with misinformation and lack of moderation.
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[email protected]replied to [email protected] last edited by
Maybe Discourse? The mobile website is pretty good and there are also a number of third-party mobile apps.
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Excellent. Thank you for the suggestion. Iāll take a look at Discourse.
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The replies illustrate the problem nicely.
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Does anyone actually use it? I put my head in every few months and itās just a bunch of graveyard servers. Very few that have any activity so far as I can tell.
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What about this one that you're on right now?
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It's mirroring micronews.debian.org, not Twitter.
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You don't even have to go to the website. Every Mastodon feed can be accessed via RSS. You just have to add ".rss" to the end of the URL.
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Arm is insanely fragmented, every device must be have dedicated drivers and hardcoded specific configuration in the kernel. Also Snapdragon X devices are not even fully supported upstream in the most recent kernel yet. Which means they are many years away from being supported in Debian. Unless someone makes a fork of Debian with latest kernel and not yet upstreamed Qualcomm specific patches (which how these "arm distros" are usually made).
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Having worked on a couple of Matrix deployments over the last year, that shit needs to be simpler and easier, yo? Once the Matrix server exists, it's easy enough to get people to use it.
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Everyone who have use Twitter in the past 2 years is a nazi.
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I've managed to ditch every single one of those except LinkedIn. We simply CANNOT get new clients without it. The lockin to that platform is truly terrifying. LinkedIn is a crime against humanity.
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My townās subreddit just started a policy to disallow links to X for similar reasons.
There is a movement to avoid the platform.
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I still don't think I understand the full utility of RSS. I guess it's good for forum communication too?
Because my first thought was "RSS is cool but first we need human-written content and blogs to come back."