Topics on this forum have “Share” feature, proving a popup dialog with amoung others a link, and the first button is to share the link on X.com (née Twitter.com).
Twitter.com is long gone, and X.com is constantly getting more and more right wing. The latest example is the inbuild LLM/AI promoting Neo-Nazism and praising Hitler.
Can the link to X.com be removed from the Share feature please?
I’m Jewish and I’m telling you that this forum doesn’t have this option, and what’s more, even on YouTube, Instagram, Mail, Facebook, there are neo-Nazis all over the internet. You can’t ban the use of the entire internet because of this [I hope you didn’t have political thoughts in this post]
I wonder if social sharing buttons are only on your end because I have none (not even for Facebook)
Either way removing the Twitter button wouldn’t be a big loss as you can just copy-paste the link in a new tweet
In any case, I don’t think there’s a way to undo this [If this helped, I’d be very happy if you marked it as a solution.
It is possible to remove these share options through configuration. I would argue that it would make sense to remove both Twitter and Facebook share options. Let’s let this sit for a few days to see if anyone has an issue with it.
Maybe a survey
I sent an invitation to the forum administrators to discuss removing this option.
I see no issue in having a way to share OSM content as widely and easily as possible, more options should be offered, not less. Millions of people use X. OSM should not be in the business of making content harder to share simply because a platform hosts speech that doesn’t align with a particular political belief.
My argument against Twitter links in this forum is that they’re somewhat inaccessible to people here who don’t have a Twitter account. That doesn’t really apply the other way around - sharing content from here to Twitter might improve the standard of the discourse** there, who knows.
(writing in an entirely personal capacity)
** sorry not sorry for the pun
I’ve always found share buttons like these to be pointless user interface clutter. Get rid of them all and just provide a copy url button for universal sharing everywhere. Otherwise you end up with a bajillion different buttons covering many many different services.
This. And some of the social media platforms offer a preview of the link posted.
I would assume that nowadays the only reason one would want a share button for specific social media, would be to auto-open that social media with the post already filled with the link, and occasionally prefilled with other info aswell, like title of the topic, which I don’t see it being done recent years. In the past it was common.
For the record, these are 2 different things:
We are not a monolith, we all have different beliefs, especially political. To say content that isn’t related to OSM warrants OSM community action is purely political activism, which should have no place in OSM, regardless of ideology.
Everything is political in one way or another (even non-action). Why do you think OSM exists in the first place?
Here’s just the latest crap in an unbroken series from Musk and that website:
I guess I just don’t see OSM as a moral compass and something we should limit the reach of because of non-OSM content on the web. The internet is full of places I find objectionably horrible, but I’m still on it everyday and can see the use for good, valuable dialog and communication just as I do X.
I don’t agree with the confederacy in the US but I’m in the rural south of Georgia with plenty of names and statues honoring that time. If I don’t agree with that, should I not map it? Where do we draw the line if we’re going to insert morality into OSM?
Reminder that this post was about removing the share button for X, not banning the site outright.
You’re right, that’s why I wanted to point out:
