24 Jan
2025
24 Jan
'25
8:31 a.m.
+1 to leaving X for all of the reasons you cited
On Fri, Jan 24, 2025, 1:36 AM Matthew Wild <mwild1(a)gmail.com> wrote:
On Fri, 24 Jan 2025 at 09:16, Mathieu Pasquet
<mathieui(a)mathieui.net>
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