+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 >
