Debian is Ditching X (Twitter) Citing These Reasons

[zacryon@feddit.org]

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.

[linuxoveruser@lemmy.ml]

Maybe Discourse? The mobile website is pretty good and there are also a number of third-party mobile apps.

[sdk@midwest.social]

Excellent. Thank you for the suggestion. I’ll take a look at Discourse.

[electric_nan@lemmy.ml]

The replies illustrate the problem nicely.

[landedgentry@lemmy.zip]

Does anyone actually use it? I put my head in every few months and it’s just a bunch of graveyard servers. Very few that have any activity so far as I can tell.

[jtskulk@lemmy.world]

What about this one that you're on right now?

[deadcream@sopuli.xyz]

It's mirroring micronews.debian.org, not Twitter.

[whiskytangofoxtrot@lemmy.world]

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.

[deadcream@sopuli.xyz]

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).

[thebardingreen@lemmy.starlightkel.xyz]

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.

[deadcream@sopuli.xyz]

Everyone who have use Twitter in the past 2 years is a nazi.

[thebardingreen@lemmy.starlightkel.xyz]

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.

[markstos@lemmy.world]

My town’s subreddit just started a policy to disallow links to X for similar reasons.

There is a movement to avoid the platform.

[monkemischief@lemmy.today]

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."

[eugenevdebs@lemmy.dbzer0.com]

Debian continues to be one of the best distros ever made. If I had the means, it would get funding every time I run apt update.

[monkemischief@lemmy.today]

That's a super neat trick actually. Why the heck has RSS been losing popularity when it seems to be the only magic protocol you really need to keep up with what you actually care about?

Oh I just answered my own question: It must be harder to hijack RSS with intrusive ads and clickbait...

[zerohora@lemmy.ml]

Blue checkmarks...

[theroff@aussie.zone]

https://forums.debian.net/ exists for Debian

[ericjmorey@programming.dev]

I'd make a blind bet on that over Matrix for suitability.

[joshcodes@programming.dev]

It's a shame I haven't seen more YouTubers leaving X, they all seem to use it to talk about whatever they do. Not that I watch a lot of YouTube these days but my family does, younger ones especially watch those minecraft SMP types. Its arguably the most toxic social media but "everyone's on there".

I liked this article about the whole ordeal so I'll share it here: Why You'll Leave X as well as instagram and all other private platforms