We've been on X/Twitter for many years, but it's time to reduce our activity there and instead promote Mastodon as our main social media channel now.

[frumble@chaos.social]

@benroyce They were already here since 2019.

[erikcats@dice.camp]

@rl_dane @cameron_bosch @libreoffice yeah I saw that one too and both are hilarious and great testaments to the Brain Rot that is Twitter

[pricklypear@infosec.exchange]

@libreoffice nice! Can anyone tell me how good their excel alternative is? I wanna try it out

[roofuskit@mstdn.social]

@libreoffice why not just leave the Nazi platform?

[benroyce@mastodon.social]

@SteveFoerster @libreoffice

seriously the replies are hilarious

"So please delete your account here, otherwise stop annoying people with your moral compass"

"Decentralized is not the future"

"I never understood why Open Source should mean pretending to be poor and small"

"Mastadon is already quite terrible when you start with it I fucking hate INSTANCES"

"But Mastodon is communist"

"Mastodon is fascist social media"

i do NOT miss twitter

[wingland@flyovercountry.social]

@libreoffice Excellent. Thanks for making the switch to an open social platform.

[benroyce@mastodon.social]

@frumble

i know and you can find plenty of posts by me shaming people still on twitter *in general*

my point is just that when an account makes a commitment to here, doesn't matter when they opened the account here or closed the account there, we should simply applaud and welcome them in direct interaction with them

it's just the smart way to go about it

[wavefunction@mastodon.sdf.org]

@stefan @SciPolTech @ghouston @oblomov @libreoffice people are "lying" because they're discounting that their friend groups are the ones who educate them.

"There's this new site called Facebook, let me help you sign up." Followed by "everyone can see the message you just wrote. Let me show you how to..." etc.

Expecting zero friction is exhausting.

[nirak@lincolnite.net]

@libreoffice Thanks you for reducing use of X, I find it very hard to support projects that still use it.

[glaswolf@mastodon.scot]

@mcbaumwolle @Schimmelreiter @libreoffice And they say Mastodon's an echo chamber! I guess they latched onto the "it's too complicated" narrative from 2022.

[adambishop@floss.social]

@libreoffice Well done!

[ktneely@infosec.exchange]

@lazyb0y @mcbaumwolle @Schimmelreiter @libreoffice beep boop bop

[lasagne@nrw.social]

@libreoffice

[kaito02@mastodon.social]

@apnoe_soeren @libreoffice and some of those who do have very wrong misconceptions about it

[lazyb0y@mastodon.social]

@ktneely

tüt pieps quieeeetsch

… that was robot-german

@mcbaumwolle @Schimmelreiter @libreoffice

[chewie@mammut.gogreenit.net]

@cameron_bosch @mcbaumwolle @libreoffice haha! The replies are hilarious

[markhburton@mstdn.social]

@libreoffice
Great.
Next step is to dump the Nazi oligarch's platform altogether.

[iampytest1@infosec.exchange]

@libreoffice Glad to see more organizations and projects posting on the Fediverse.

I think 1.5K boosts and 2.3K favorites proves people actually do use Mastodon.

[stefan@stefanbohacek.online]

@wavefunction I don't know, I'm still just not really convinced that people lying about how difficult Mastodon/fediverse is being a major reason people prefer Bluesky.

But then you also say people expect zero friction.

Is this actually true? Any way to back this up?

People complain about user experience on Bluesky all the time. No edit button. No private posts. Etc. And as Bluesky slowly works towards greater decentralization, we'll see more challenges.

But I trust that there will be more attention put towards easing those there, rather than blame the user.

[chewie@mammut.gogreenit.net]

@pricklypear @libreoffice try it - it won't cost you anything

It's more than adequate for my use, but then I'm not in accounting with horrendous spreadsheets that should really be a database instead ...