That’s not an affiliate link that’s an anonymous tracking link.

These suggestions are essentially the same as other privacy and libre focused recommendations.

I’m talking about posting on their website a link to alternative social media accounts.

I’d make a blind bet on that over Matrix for suitability.

In that case we could all just use email.

That doesn’t explain why they don’t start a transition by posting to both the new platform and the old. And not including links to their new account on their websites.

Matrix and XMPP don’t even pretend to be Discord replacements.

Unfortunately the accounts listed under Social network accounts of Debian teams and Social network accounts of Debian contributors are almost exclusively Twitter accounts.

nearly every person that creates a lemmy account, is active

This is false. There’s about a 10:1 ratio of Lemmy accounts registered to lemmy accounts posting comments.

I also did not create this.

Randall Monroe has provided me with weekly nibbles of entertainment for nearly 2 decades. But this was inspired by his style, not created by him.