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. So we've done just that: https://x.com/LibreOffice/status/2026204949760131158 – Welcome to all our new followers here 😊
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@libreoffice wonderful news, and welcome!
@libreoffice @nateb Excellent decision LibreOffice! 💚
@libreoffice Very good. I wonder what the comments under your Twitter post say... But not enough to actually make an account there (ew).
@libreoffice Great! Thank you!
@libreoffice Well done! 👏🙏
@libreoffice now do the same with telegram for community / internal communication 💪🏻
@libreoffice can you replace x.com with xcancel.com maybe? that way, people don't click through to twitter accidentally. Some of us have automatic redirects, but not everyone
@libreoffice I disagree a bit. As a member of the FLOSS community, we must promote it everywhere possible. But thanks for being here 👍
XCancel link for those who don't have a Xitter account anymore and are still curious about the replies:
@oblomov @libreoffice funny, although unsurprising that X users think Mastodon is too hard to use, or otherwise bad.
It's nice hanging out here with the other geniuses who can figure out how to use it.
@ghouston @oblomov @libreoffice I do find it strange that there seems to just be this accepted wisdom that 'Mastodon is a usability nightmare'.. parroted widely, including by those who claim to love open source and have tried it. I just don't see it.
I don't think that people are lying?
You could argue that they "just" need to put in a bit more effort, but maybe it's best to find ways to further improve the user experience?
There's some really low hanging fruit, like https://github.com/mastodon/mastodon/issues/37690.
@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.
@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.
@stefan @ghouston @oblomov @libreoffice yeah, I'm all in favour of usability improvements. Nothing complex is ever finished and certainly not perfect. I just don't see how anyone who can function unaided in the general world can't use mastodon, especially someone who has used Twitter / X. Really the only 'issues' I can imagine are initial uncertainty about choosing an instance, and the fact that 'feed' will be very quiet unless / until you proactively populate it.
@SciPolTech I don't really have much more to add here, just that this attitude of disbelief is not very helpful, and contributes to people's view of the fediverse as gatekeepy and condescending.
Better to listen to people, trust them, and think creatively about how to address their problems.
@stefan I hope and tend to assume unless shown otherwise that outright lying may is rare, but I do strongly suspect that some people who parrot the 'unusable' line have put zero (or close to) effect in to really trying it.
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@libreoffice welcome! i can tell by the replies on twitter that the people there are totally not mad and we should definitely not put in the newspaper that they got mad
that «Mastodon is fascist social media» is really *chef kiss*
@libreoffice Great! Welcome. 👋🏼 I’m using LibreOffice and love it!
@libreoffice Wise choice! ;)
@libreoffice Don’t be surprised if you get a reprimand for that on X. And the question remains how many of your followers will see it there.
@Schimmelreiter @libreoffice already happening haha 
@mcbaumwolle @libreoffice They're just desperately trying to excuse nole ksum doing anything and everything to drive projects and users off of the platform.
I'm so glad I don't not use X and my account on their is basically dead.
@mcbaumwolle @libreoffice Based on what I can see here, you might as well cut X use off completely. https://xcancel.com/LibreOffice/status/2026204949760131158
@cameron_bosch @mcbaumwolle @libreoffice
Dude with a faux NFT monkey profile pic:
"So please delete your account here, otherwise stop annoying people with your moral compass."
Dear God, kill Xitter with fire. XD
@rl_dane @cameron_bosch @mcbaumwolle@mastodon.social @libreoffice oh this one is a laugh
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Great news and welcome.