On 2018-09-18 07:27:26 +0800 (+0800), Zhipeng Huang wrote: [...] > On another side note, there has not been a (maybe I missed) good > "no" vote message I was looking for. > > A good quality "no" message could something like this in my > opinion (and this is just one of many possibilities): > > "Thanks for invitation but no I would not like to use social media > apps other than IRC. General social media apps are open to a more > variety of people than in IRC channels and there are personalities > or social characters that I found myself just cannot cope with. > Moreover social media apps demands instant response, or at least > has the expectation for one, in its nature and it would make me > feel pressured all the time. So no thank you I would not use > social media in any form, however if you do have good technical > questions from the social apps, please feel free to relay to me > and I'm glad to help when I have the bandwidth"
This seems to completely miss the reasons I personally reject such platforms. I don't use proprietary tools or services for interacting with our community, I avoid relying on products from companies which attempt to track or share my location and activities for their own profit or to report them to various government agencies, and I have no interest in owning a "smart phone" (which some services such as wechat outright require). At least for me, the example rejection you proposed above is a miss on all counts... I am plenty capable of coping with any of the "personalities or social characters" I'm likely to encounter on those services (I'm quite certain IRC is where you're going to find some of the worst and *most* intolerable characters of any discussion medium). I also am accustomed to providing a near instant response to urgent requests in IRC, and at the same time don't feel particularly "pressured" to do so. And I _do_ use some social media: both IRC and mailing lists are in fact legitimate examples of social media. I'm really not even opposed to using other forms as long as they rely on open protocols and both the client _and_ server software are available under a free/libre open source license. -- Jeremy Stanley
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