Re: thank you elon musk

[Thomas Lord]

   There is nothing the software freedom movement can do to prevent the
   existence of malicious users or malicious server operators.  All that
   we can do is make sure that none of them are able to monopolize a
   widely shared service, and that the software needed to stand up servers
   is libre software.  So your criticism of Mastadon misses the point and
   suggests you aren't interested in helping bury software unfreedom.

   -t



   On 2022-04-26 11:23, Danny Spitzberg wrote:

   Unfortunately, Twitter has a huge critical mass of users and functions
   as a (publicly traded) public utility. News programs read tweets live
   on TV. Politicians post statements via tweets too. Earthquake reports
   come out first via Twitter before official alerts come out - also on
   Twitter.

   As for Mastodon,
   [1]https://twitter.com/gravecat/status/1518598015396818944

   On Tue, Apr 26, 2022 at 11:19 AM Thomas Lord <[2]lord@basiscraft.com>
   wrote:

     Why is this hard?
     A lot of serious people are now looking for an exit from twitter.
     The ones I see are asking about Mastadon.
     The FSF front page is a bunch of dust stuff about libreplanet,
     and they evince no concerted, organized activity to stand up
     instances and education materials -- to move people to Mastadon.
     Why else do they exist?  It is not enough to "have a position"
     on twitter.  Get to the barricades.
     I have long been troubled that FSF has devolved to the kind of
     NPO that exists mainly to provide jobs for the people who
     operate it, and not to serve a useful social function.
     Here we have today a clear circumstance in which they can
     prove me wrong.
     -t
     On 2022-04-26 10:50, Kaio Duarte Costa wrote:
     > Em 2022-04-26 14:37, Thomas Lord escreveu:
     >> If the FSF is not now going very hard on promoting Mastadon,
     >> they should never be trusted to anything right again.
     >>
     >> :-)
     >>
     >> -t
     >>
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     >
     > Hey Thomas,
     >
     > I didn't quite understand your message, where is the FSF failing
     in
     > promoting Mastodon? By using Twitter which has now been bought by
     Elon
     > Musk?
     >
     > If this is the case, I recommend you see the page "Is the FSF on
     > Twitter?" ([5]https://www.fsf.org/twitter)
     >
     > Please clarify the points that you consider FSF's low effort in
     > relation
     > to Mastodon, to make it easier to understand!
     >
     > Sincerely,
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References

   1. https://twitter.com/gravecat/status/1518598015396818944
   2. mailto:lord@basiscraft.com
   3. mailto:libreplanet-discuss@libreplanet.org
   4. https://lists.libreplanet.org/mailman/listinfo/libreplanet-discuss
   5. https://www.fsf.org/twitter
   6. mailto:libreplanet-discuss@libreplanet.org
   7. https://lists.libreplanet.org/mailman/listinfo/libreplanet-discuss