# Dropping Twitter

**URL:** <https://discourse.sustainoss.org/t/dropping-twitter/1417>\
**Category:** 📣 Sustainer Talk\
**Created:** [November 8, 2023, 10:09pm UTC](https://discourse.sustainoss.org/t/dropping-twitter/1417 "2023-11-08T22:09:56Z")\
**Posts on this page:** 9\
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**Author:** ![RichardLitt](https://yyz2.discourse-cdn.com/flex032/user_avatar/discourse.sustainoss.org/richardlitt/32/8_2.png) [@RichardLitt](https://discourse.sustainoss.org/u/RichardLitt)\
**Post date:** [November 8, 2023, 10:09pm UTC](https://discourse.sustainoss.org/t/dropping-twitter/1417/1 "2023-11-08T22:09:56Z")

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We’ve been using Twitter to promote the podcast and Sustain work for the past few years. However, given the recent changes to the platform, including but not limited to explicit fascist and racist statements and rhetoric being allowed on the platform and encouraged by its management, I haven’t found that Twitter is a place where I want to spend any time. I don’t think Sustain should be there, either.

We have [a BlueSky](https://staging.bsky.app/profile/sustainoss.bsky.social) and [a Mastodon](https://hachyderm.io/@sustainoss/), and we of course [use LinkedIn](https://www.linkedin.com/company/sustainoss/). Given this, would anyone object if we stop using the SustainOSS twitter account permanently? I propose putting out a last Tweet saying we are abandoning the platform and just letting it die.

We would not be alone in this. [ROpenSci has already stopped using Twitter entirely](https://twitter.com/rOpenSci/status/1668943817184083968).

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**Author:** ![mbarker](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/b5a626/32.png) [@mbarker](https://discourse.sustainoss.org/u/mbarker)\
**Post date:** [November 8, 2023, 10:58pm UTC](https://discourse.sustainoss.org/t/dropping-twitter/1417/2 "2023-11-08T22:58:37Z")

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ReSA has also just made this decision. We’re setting up LinkedIn now as our community managers in Africa and Asia also suggest it as the best way to engage with their stakeholders. We will still keep using Mastodon a bit to see how it evolves, as currently it’s not ideal for us either.

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**Author:** ![abitrolly](https://yyz2.discourse-cdn.com/flex032/user_avatar/discourse.sustainoss.org/abitrolly/32/845_2.png) [@abitrolly](https://discourse.sustainoss.org/u/abitrolly)\
**Post date:** [November 8, 2023, 11:34pm UTC](https://discourse.sustainoss.org/t/dropping-twitter/1417/3 "2023-11-08T23:34:35Z")

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Quite sad to read that the reason to drop the Twitter is not because it is not open source, but because there is some problem with first amendment.

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**Author:** ![downey](https://yyz2.discourse-cdn.com/flex032/user_avatar/discourse.sustainoss.org/downey/32/1243_2.png) [@downey](https://discourse.sustainoss.org/u/downey)\
**Post date:** [November 8, 2023, 11:39pm UTC](https://discourse.sustainoss.org/t/dropping-twitter/1417/4 "2023-11-08T23:39:08Z")

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I moved to the Fediverse in 2018 and highly recommend it to everyone.

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**Author:** ![jwf](https://yyz2.discourse-cdn.com/flex032/user_avatar/discourse.sustainoss.org/jwf/32/1093_2.png) [@jwf](https://discourse.sustainoss.org/u/jwf)\
**Post date:** [November 22, 2023, 8:01pm UTC](https://discourse.sustainoss.org/t/dropping-twitter/1417/5 "2023-11-22T20:01:35Z")

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I don’t think it is unreasonable, although it might be worth a [blog post](https://sustainoss.org/blog/) to announce it formally.

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**Author:** ![ShaneCurcuru](https://yyz2.discourse-cdn.com/flex032/user_avatar/discourse.sustainoss.org/shanecurcuru/32/1015_2.png) [@ShaneCurcuru](https://discourse.sustainoss.org/u/ShaneCurcuru)\
**Post date:** [December 5, 2023, 7:09pm UTC](https://discourse.sustainoss.org/t/dropping-twitter/1417/6 "2023-12-05T19:09:22Z")

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Personally, I’d suggest a blog post and making it a permanent pause on non-urgent content on Twitter/X platform. I’d keep the account active, just in case you either need to 1) publish some sort of uber-critical announcement (think security updates if this were a product), or 2) just in case someday Twitter/X changes ownership and becomes decent again.

Guess this means I really need to find a new Fediverse client I like!

- Shane

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**Author:** ![catallman](https://yyz2.discourse-cdn.com/flex032/user_avatar/discourse.sustainoss.org/catallman/32/837_2.png) [@catallman](https://discourse.sustainoss.org/u/catallman)\
**Post date:** [December 5, 2023, 7:52pm UTC](https://discourse.sustainoss.org/t/dropping-twitter/1417/7 "2023-12-05T19:52:48Z")

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I have 5 Bluesky invites if anyone needs one…

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**Author:** ![smaffulli](https://yyz2.discourse-cdn.com/flex032/user_avatar/discourse.sustainoss.org/smaffulli/32/742_2.png) [@smaffulli](https://discourse.sustainoss.org/u/smaffulli)\
**Post date:** [December 6, 2023, 2:26pm UTC](https://discourse.sustainoss.org/t/dropping-twitter/1417/8 "2023-12-06T14:26:25Z")

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in iOS my fav is IceCube. On web I’m using [https://elk.zone/](https://elk.zone/) but it’s annoyingly missing “repost with comment” (that Mastodon annoyingly doesn’t support natively). On Android I rarely use any app (not a fan of Tusky nor the official Mastodon app.)

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**Author:** ![RichardLitt](https://yyz2.discourse-cdn.com/flex032/user_avatar/discourse.sustainoss.org/richardlitt/32/8_2.png) [@RichardLitt](https://discourse.sustainoss.org/u/RichardLitt)\
**Post date:** [December 12, 2023, 10:00pm UTC](https://discourse.sustainoss.org/t/dropping-twitter/1417/9 "2023-12-12T22:00:39Z")

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I’ll have to check that out, @smaffuli. And thanks, @Catallman. I have some available, too.

Here’s the blogpost. Considering this case closed! Thanks everyone.

> **[Dropping X](https://sustainoss.org/blog/dropping-x/)**
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> After some discussion on the Discourse, we have decided to entirely stop using X, formerly called Twitter, as a social venue for Sustain. So, from now on, we have formally paused using it.