+1 for leaving X ASAP. On Freitag, 24. Januar 2025 10:16:28 CET Mathieu Pasquet 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. > > Moreover, and this might be of interest to people all over the > political spectrum (in a way that supporting human rights is sadly not > anymore), the reach that the platform could allow is simply gone, > because all the features and algorithms have been tweaked over the > year to promote clashes, insults, and divisive content [10], something > I do not believe the XSF wants to engage in. > > We are already on mastodon, with much better numbers (and probably > more actual people), and if we are not on BlueSky we can either use a > bridge to appear there, or open an account there and hope it will also > be a decentralized network one day. > > 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. > > I know the topic can be somewhat divisive, but I believe the mailing > list can be a better venue to discuss it than the chatroom. > > Regards, > > Mathieu > > [1] > https://foreignpolicy.com/2023/07/15/elon-musk-twitter-blue-checks-verificat > ion-disinformation-propaganda-russia-china-trust-safety/ > > [2] > https://www.theguardian.com/technology/2025/jan/04/elon-musk-x-trump-far-rig > ht > > > [3] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dog_whistle_(politics) > > [4] > https://www.theguardian.com/technology/2025/jan/21/the-gesture-speaks-for-it > self-germans-divided-over-musks-apparent-nazi-salute [5] > https://www.independent.co.uk/news/elon-musk-twitter-transgender-hate-speech > -b2351923.html > > > [6] > https://edition.cnn.com/2023/11/17/business/elon-musk-reveals-his-actual-tru > th/index.html > > > [7] https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/articles/c1kez8d2dygo > > [8] > https://www.lemonde.fr/en/international/article/2025/01/10/on-x-elon-musk-no > rmalizes-the-german-far-right_6736904_4.html > > [9] > https://www.nbcnews.com/tech/social-media/elon-musk-turned-x-trump-echo-cham > ber-rcna174321 > > > [10] https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/c1elddq34p7o > > [11] https://logs.xmpp.org/xsf/2024-03-07#2024-03-07-3bb85c8d4955ac0d
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