No X under social media.

Nicolás Alvarez nicolas.alvarez at gmail.com
Tue Oct 28 17:45:14 GMT 2025


El mar, 28 oct 2025 a la(s) 7:22 a.m., Paul Brown (paul.brown at kde.org) escribió:
>
> On Monday, 27 October 2025 18:44:54 Central European Standard Time aljosa
> mlinaric wrote:
> > Hi,
> >
> > I am curious why you do not have a link to your X social media on your
> > website. I know you are just forwarding posts to X from your Mastodon
> > server. However, I’m afraid that if you pushed for more marketing on X—like
> > DHH and Ladybird do—the hype would be much greater. I think you need a
> > separate social media manager for the X platform. If you need help, I can
> > do that to fill my spare student time.
> >
> > Best regards,
> >
> > Aljoša
>
> Hi,
>
> We stopped posting on X for several reasons:
>
> 1. The owner is a nazi
> 2. The owner censors non- nazis and promotes nazis and their messages
> 3. (Hence) most people who remain on X or are clueless and have difficulty
> parsing written text (one would assume), or are nazis
> 4. Most of the new followers we were getting were nazi-propaganda spewing bots
> (7 out of 10 on average) or just straight up nazis.
>
> Our community is not made up of nazis and many of our friendly contributors
> would be the target of nazi harassment, so we were not sure what we were doing
> there and stopped posting and left.
>
> We are happy with that decision and have no intention of reversing it.

It's interesting they're citing specifically DHH and Ladybird as
examples to follow, considering:
https://drewdevault.com/2025/09/24/2025-09-24-Cloudflare-and-fascists.html

-- 
Nicolás


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