We stopped posting on X for several reasons:
- The owner is a nazi
- The owner censors non- nazis and promotes nazis and their messages
- (Hence) most people who remain on X or are clueless and have difficulty parsing written text (one would assume), or are nazis
- 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 was never really a good look to be on a proprietary platform anyway, same with GitHub, which has made obvious that they’re cashing in on their network effect to lure people into buying Microsoft AI slop. It should be commended that both KDE and GNOME rely firmly on their own infrastructure, despite whatever cost and additional labor it brings to the project.
The Microsoft acquisition should have been taken as more of a warning sign.
It was. A lot of people bounced at the time.