Hi, On Thu, Jul 10, 2025 at 04:25:56PM +0100, Alain D D Williams wrote: > On Thu, Jul 10, 2025 at 03:19:40PM +0000, Andy Smith wrote: > > On Thu, Jul 10, 2025 at 02:32:53PM +0100, Alain D D Williams wrote: > > > The likes of facebook are steering people away from email as they want > > > to keep all interaction within their eco system - email is something > > > that lets people escape from them. > > > > I would dispute your claim that email is the only form of social > > networking that has positive value. > > That is not what I say. I say that facebook, etc, want to stop people > interacting outside of their visibility/control - email is one way of so > doing - but not the only one.
What is the relevance of this to the fact that people just prefer things other than email? I didn't say "everyone is on Facebook, let's do this on Facebook". Yes you can make a user-hostile environment more easily if it's web- or app-based but I'm going to assume that is never going to be Debian's goal so why even suggest it as a possibility? There are collaboration apps and communities that aren't owned by billionaire and venture capitalists. It's still possible to self-host such communities. I'm saying try to meet users where they are without being predatory to them, or overly paternalistic like the FSF¹. Thanks, Andy ¹ "Don't protect your web site from AI bot DDoS with Anubis because Anubis uses Javascript which is the devil!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!" OK boomer -- https://bitfolk.com/ -- No-nonsense VPS hosting
