The Debian Publicity Team is stepping away from X/Twitter, citing concerns over values and diversity.
  • VandimionDevilChild@beehaw.org
    3·
    1 month ago

    didn’t even knew they had an account there, good can’t see how twitter could ever be a good fit for Debian values or any person with who care about foss.

  • markstos@lemmy.world
    551·
    1 month ago

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

    There is a movement to avoid the platform.

  • slazer2au@lemmy.worldEnglish
    221·
    1 month ago

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

  • hulfpa@lemmy.mlEnglish
    11·
    1 month ago

    Now I wish they had an ARM Qualcomm distro. Been hoping for a Linux distro for my Snapdragon X Elite machine. Now Debian had taken a stand for something they will probably be my distro once there is Linux support for my machine!

    • emergencyfood@sh.itjust.works
      5·
      1 month ago

      Debian already has an ARM version. Do you mean some Qualcomm drivers are missing? There are already Ubuntu ROMs for Android phones, so this shouldn’t be an issue, right?

      • hulfpa@lemmy.mlEnglish
        2·
        1 month ago

        There are ARM distros, yet the SnapDragon X Elite SOC is not yet supported fully. The drivers are a mess. They are progressing, but slowly probably due to the small number of people who would use it.

      • deadcream@sopuli.xyz
        2·
        1 month ago

        Arm is insanely fragmented, every device must be have dedicated drivers and hardcoded specific configuration in the kernel. And sometimes even separate kernel builds. Also Snapdragon X devices are not even fully supported upstream in the most recent kernel yet. Which means they are many years away from being supported in Debian. Unless someone makes a fork of Debian with latest kernel and not yet upstreamed Qualcomm specific patches (which how these “arm distros” are usually made).

  • nullpotential@lemmy.dbzer0.com
    571·
    1 month ago

    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?

    • Ferk@lemmy.ml
      6·
      1 month ago

      I think the argument is that those alternatives already existed before. Twitter was not being prioritized, it was essentially mirroring the content already available in RSS, mastodon, etc. So effectively, there’s now one less place where the news will be visible.

      However, I do agree with the move, but only because Debian being a FOSS initiative should stay away from proprietary platforms and promote FOSS, even if it means effectively “shutting off” a portion of users who don’t wanna leave the twitter bubble.

  • deathbird@mander.xyz
    14·
    1 month ago

    The “safety” thing is a bit hyperbolic. I wish they’d just say “the quality of the interactions is going down” or “poor moderation” or something else a little more honest.

    Twitter is a shitty platform in structure, format, and moderation. I’m glad Debian’s not on it. But I am disappointed in them for using hyperbolic rhetoric.

    • spoopy@lemmy.world
      41·
      1 month ago

      Safe is a very broad term. Its not being used hyperbolically here. It’s not referring to physical safety.

      • deathbird@mander.xyz
        11·
        1 month ago

        Yeah I’m aware that it means “emotional safey” the way they’re using it. But they’re still being hyperbolic, because emotional safety in the context of opinions on the Internet is just not meaningful. In a relationship one can speak of emotional safety in context of emotional manipulation or violence, but on a microblogging platform? The axiom of Tyler the Creator still applies, and we’re not even talking about targeted harassment.

  • some_guy@lemmy.sdf.org
    151·
    1 month ago

    If you ask me, this looks like a big possibility, as X/Twitter’s evident bias towards the newly established U.S. government and their favoring of one demographic over the other could have set off Debian’s move.

    That’s just me speculating, though. 🙃

    No, you got it right. I get that you need to cover your ass to avoid a lawsuit, but it’s exactly because a guy who loves the adoration of nazis owns the platform.

    • linchiao@lemm.eeEspañol
      2·
      1 month ago

      I wont downvote you but you arent undestanding it. People like Trump and Musk are radical ones and they want “to clean” LGBT+ under view of “they are pedophiles”. Trump is said to be “anti vaccines” but he paid in advance for them and he wrote 200 orders like Javier Milei super law of basis, (ley omnibus) with modifications for 300+ laws. This is an anti democratic behaviour.

    • Mouette@jlai.lu
      4·
      1 month ago

      Imagine your view point is aligning with Musk one… You’re either a billionaire or a dumb looser thinking is a part of a club he isn’t in