Also +1 for leaving X.
I agree that we do not need a member vote here.
I think it still would be good to explore Bluesky. Many people are
leaving X in favor of Bluesky.
Alex
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Von "Arc Riley" <[email protected]>
An "XSF Members" <[email protected]>
Cc "Mathieu Pasquet" <[email protected]>
Datum 24.01.2025 16:31:25
Betreff [Members] Re: Removing the XSF presence on Twitter/X
+1 to leaving X for all of the reasons you cited
On Fri, Jan 24, 2025, 1:36 AM Matthew Wild <[email protected]> wrote:
On Fri, 24 Jan 2025 at 09:16, Mathieu Pasquet <[email protected]>
wrote:
>
> Good day everyone,
>
> The topic has come up in the xsf@ chatroom, and it has been
suggested that we take this topic to the mailing list, so I will be
doing just that.
>
> Twitter was never a spotless social network (is there any?), but it
did allow at one point somewhat global communication; nowadays it is
mostly a far-right echo chamber [1][2], that its owner (a man who is
very used to racist dogwhistles [3][4], transphobic discourse [5], and
other ways [6] of denying the humanity of a sizeable portion of the
world’s population, essentially a 4chan troll, which is quite clear
for anyone who has seen him tweet) is using to propel his nazi or
nazi-adjacent champions [7][8][9] across the world in the hope that
they win elections. My personal opinion is that staying there is not
taking a neutral political stance., if that is something the XSF is
interested in.
> I assume this needs a decision by the board or a member vote, so
here I am.
> The topic came up last year [11] but I do not believe a decision was
reached.
There was some support last year for not disrupting things in a
knee-jerk reaction, and the conclusion was to "wait and see". I think
all we've seen is more reason to leave.
I remain of the opinion that the value of being on that platform has
been small or negative for quite some time, and has been decreasing
for years. I won't be sad to see the XSF leave it. As pointed out in
the chat, I think there are many reasons to leave, and I think these
days anyone would struggle to find a reason to remain.
Regards,
Matthew
