Re: Debian's Presence on Twitter (X)

On Fri, 24 Jan 2025 at 17:30, Roberto C. Sánchez <[email protected]> wrote:

>
> When group A was safe, it would seem that many (or perhaps most) in
> Debian were willing to tolerate the connection to a non-free platform
> because it served our objectives as a project becuase we cared for group
> A in some way. The fact that group B wasn't safe didn't seem to be much
> of an obstacle in this case (perhaps because people in the project
> largely felt that group B *shouldn't* feel safe, but even if that wasn't
> the case we didn't care for how group B fared).
>
> Now things have changed, group A no longer feels "safe", and group B
> feels "safe". This is apparently not acceptable to a lot of people
> within Debian. Fine, whatever.
>
> Let's just not pretend that there is some objective notion of "safe"
> that we are pursuing, because Mastodon, the fediverse, and whatever, are
> *exactly* the same as Twitter in this regard. Some people will feel
> "safe" and others will not, and we just want to go where it's the people
> we don't care about who are the ones that don't feel "safe".
>

I suggest reframing "diversity" into "variety", especially in
schooling and education contexts. Let me explain briefly why this will
significatively improve our perception and hence relationship with
"others".

In the above example, there are two groups A and B. In that scenario
me, you, him, her, everyone is under pressure to choose A xor B.
Despite everyone can be with A in some topics and with B in some other
topics, moreover everyone can, in every specific topic, agrees with A
or B on an extended or limited degree that my vary from "fully agree"
to "preferable than others, but not happy about it".

This reframing from "diversity" (which implies the existence of a kind
of normality, by contrast) in favour of "variety" quickly drops any
kind of polarisation and will provide the opportunity for group C and
D, etc. to emerge.

Moving one-by-one, the people hence the society and therefore the
culture from a polarised duality of A xor B - and in the real world
xor means against because everyone needs to be all-in into A or B,
lacking other alternatives and a degree of acceptance - toward a much
more comfortable, reasonably moderated, multi-opinions universe.

Best regards, R-