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
I sympathize with this viewpoint, but I don't think it's very pragmatic. Outreach isn't very effective if it only reaches people who agree with us already.
On 1/24/25 10:40 AM, Ralph Meijer wrote:
> 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.
That argument is dubious, since if "you need to log in" is a gating factor, then email, Mattermost, and indeed XMPP are all problematic. If you mean "an account on a specific silo", then it's simply a restatement of your first argument.
Dave.