25 Jan
2025
25 Jan
'25
4:58 a.m.
Not all use cases of XMPP are federating. We can't exclude non-federating social media
based on a reference to the XMPP protocol. Other arguments may apply, but that is a
discussion I try to avoid right now because that discussion has very hairy corners. I
rather not tackle them when not needed.
There are still enough arguments to leave X and reconsider our dependency on other
'social' media.
Winfried
On 25 January 2025 01:55:26 CET, Travis Burtrum <travis(a)burtrum.org> wrote:
Hello,
I think we should drop all silos that are incompatible with the XSF's mission of open
federated protocols. That means Twitter, LinkedIn*, and YouTube. At least remove them
from https://xmpp.org/
* A new reason to drop LinkedIn just appeared:
https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/cdxevpzy3yko
On 1/24/25 10:40 AM, Ralph Meijer wrote:
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Normally there is some text here, bragging about the new phone and excusing for the
brevity. That is insane: if this phone was really that great, I would have sent a decent
mail.
On X specifically, if we would decide to stop
posting there, we should definitely not close the account. There is a lot of historic
discussions there, and I'd hate to see that disappear.
They have already disappeared, can you link to one that doesn't require logging in
with a twitter account to see? Then it doesn't exist. Another good reason why we
should stay off silos so that we don't have future important discussions that
disappear.
Thanks,
moparisthebest