Also +1 for leaving X.
I agree that we do not need a member vote here.

I think it still would be good to explore Bluesky. Many people are leaving X in favor of Bluesky. 

Alex


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Von "Arc Riley" <arcriley@gmail.com>
An "XSF Members" <members@xmpp.org>
Cc "Mathieu Pasquet" <mathieui@mathieui.net>
Datum 24.01.2025 16:31:25
Betreff [Members] Re: Removing the XSF presence on Twitter/X

+1 to leaving X for all of the reasons you cited 

On Fri, Jan 24, 2025, 1:36 AM Matthew Wild <mwild1@gmail.com> wrote:
On Fri, 24 Jan 2025 at 09:16, Mathieu Pasquet <mathieui@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