Personally, I think that the discussion around this will evolve as the news spreads, but I agree with Robert on this one. Sure, X/Twitter has become a less welcoming place than before, but shutting out a significant portion of your community without seeking their input first isn't a sensible move for such a foundational open source project.

Nah, I think I'm cool if Debian doesn't respect the input of Nazi sympathisers.

So Wayland?

They can be found on Mastodon here: @debian@framapiaf.org

Good riddance. Stop using Nazi platforms and join the fediverse instead.

When it forces you to log in to view stuff, it's usefulness as a platform for announcements is substantially lessened.

Wild that so many are still hanging out at the Nazi bar

Good, now if only OpenSource devs switched from Discord to let's say Matrix/XMPP

We'd be partying

shutting out a significant portion of your community without seeking their input first isn't a sensible move for such a foundational open source project.

Ironic when X shuts out anyone who isn't logged in and shuts out anyone who doesn't pay for a blue checkmark from having visible replies.

Having an X account isn't consequence-free - if it becomes where updates occur, people have to sign up for an account and subject themselves to nazis everywhere and all manner of crypto spam just to see updates. And they have to pay Elon tribute to be heard in response. It's crazy that anyone sees it as being friendly to users.

I keep making the incorrect assumption that everyone has already left X. Just seems common sense we've hit all hands abandon ship

I don't mind, actually everyone should ditch Twatter.

I didn't really need another reason to love Debian more but here we are... I'm donating to Debian today

shutting out a significant portion of your community without seeking their input first isn't a sensible move for such a foundational open source project.

It actually is a perfectly sensible move, and it doesn't "shut out" anyone. If anything, prioritizing twitter is what shuts users out. They linked to two-three alternatives. What's the argument here, exactly, from the other side?

... Debian was on twitter??

My town’s subreddit just started a policy to disallow links to X for similar reasons.

There is a movement to avoid the platform.

As it turns out, having an account on a social media platform full of Nazis, violent racists, and child diddlers is not good for business.

god, the replies to their tweet are awful...

This is a great example of where linking to a blog post about an announcement is better than linking to the announcement itself:

after digging a bit deeper, I discovered that there was originally a longer, more detailed announcement that was later scrapped. I found it in a GitLab commit made by Jean. [Link to GitLab comment in article]

Good job, itsfoss.com

Good for them. It's an organisation's free choice to pick the platforms they post and interact on, if any. Their presence is a service in itself while there are plenty of other ways to follow or reach them if needed.

I don't like how people are trying to stir up dissent and drama around this. The message posted is short and on point, it includes all the important bits. There really isn't much more to add.

Fuck X.com, all my homies use wayland.social

The reasoning behind this move is said to be X/Twitter not being in line with Debian's shared values

Maybe we'll go back to forums.

I hope BBS's make a comeback. Pixilated titles and all..