BlueMonday1984Oct 27

Stubsack: weekly thread for sneers not worth an entire post, week ending 2nd November 2025

https://awful.systems/post/6080044

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KDE showing how it should be done:

mail.kde.org/pipermail/kde-www/…/009275.html

Question:

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.

Response:

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.

    No X under social media.

    Oct 29 at 6:57pmWeb
    Show threadBlueMonday1984Oct 29

    The follow-up’s worth mentioning too:

    It’s interesting they’re citing specifically DHH and Ladybird as examples to follow, considering:

    drewdevault.com/…/2025-09-24-Cloudflare-and-fasci…

    No X under social media.

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