On Fri, 24 Jan 2025 at 09:16, Mathieu Pasquet <mathieui@mathieui.net> wrote:
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> 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