@nileane I try to assume best intentions since everyone has their reasons and community is already hard to find (i’ve thrown up my hands with neighborhood fb groups since maintaining a multigenerational community is complicated enough w/obdoor to door tech support) but wasn’t the whole point of making a big show of it to demonstrate it was possible with the technical resources to do so?

Since some people are asking, in case that wasn't clear in the above post: no I don't want anything to do with MacStories anymore.

As to @comfortzone, we don't know what happens to it yet, but we'll let our listeners know when we do

@nileane Ah, your podcast is hosted on Macstories, listened a few times but been a while so forgot. Time to move it?

@nileane Your points are very valid.
I unfollowed Macstories a while back because I wasn’t interested in endless stories about very niche usecases.
But I thought Federico was a nerd guy with a clear moral compass.
Reading your post makes me incredibly sad. To see him switch to the dark side was not on my bullshit bingo card for 2026.

@nileane white cis dudes and their privileges, bleh. it's spineless behaviour and probably all about the money, money, money.

fwiw, I've unsubscribed my membership, finally, that was like the last straw.

I hope that doesn't affect comfort zone in any way, I've liked hearing you there.

@nileane Thank you for speaking out about this, Niléane. This is very disappointing although not terribly surprising to me. I see parallels to how MacStories seemingly abandoned their quite principled stance on gen-AI and went all-in…

@nileane this really sucks, its quite the betrayal. Hope you can find a better workplace! 💔

@nileane Well, crap. Unsubscribed from all of their feeds. Good for you for sticking to your values, and while I'm sorry it came to this, I'm glad it's kicking unethical and immoral people in a place that hurts on your way out. I look forward to seeing where you end up and what your produce going forward.

@nileane @fmarini I never thought I would be unsubscribing and blocking Federico and MacStories but that’s what I have done. Twitter/X has only got worse since they left it, so there is no rationale for going back. I’m very disappointed in people I used to respect.

@nileane I cancelled my MacStories subscription. What a fucking disaster. Sorry, Nileane

@nileane I also noticed Federico several times referred to himself on X as a "builder". I have found that "builder" is right-coded language there now, and it's hard to believe Federico wouldn't know that. The worst people on X proudly call themselves builders, and use that term to bludgeon other people ("woke" critics aren't "builders" so their opinions don't count, or some such nonsense). It's very alarming.

@nileane I’m sorry Niléane 😔

@nileane ah, this sucks, I’m sorry to hear that you were not informed before hand, what I consider a cowardly move. In my opinion he may know it is wrong. It’s really sad to see. Thanks for shining a light on this. Will cancel my membership. That was the last straw.

@nileane Sorry to hear you were cut out of the loop. That’s feels incredibly disrespectful. It might be their company but every contributor has their face on the about page so it reflects on them too.

@nileane This is bad, bad. Typical corporate tech bro behavior man…

@nileane May I ask if he answered the message you sent him?

@nileane the details make it even worse than I guessed 😞 I’m so sorry you’re going through this.

@nileane I have not posted about this issue because I have many angry and deeply-disappointed thoughts and this is not that kind of network for me, but I will say it's not ok that you were blindsided by this

@nileane Ugh. Ew. And no thank you. That’s two Apple oriented sites now that suddenly seem okay with the platform.

@nileane Sadly, I stopped following all things Macstories over a year ago when they went all-in on AI with all the other tech bro podcasters… :-(

@nileane I totally understand and respect why you are upset by this. As you said, "He was woke when being woke used to be good business".

There's too much performative behaviour and short memories 😔

@nileane It would be bad enough already to return with the MacStories account for posting articles, but no, they are returning with personal accounts to post about things.

Secondly, the decline in readers + subscriptions is arguably more about people not being interested in the content anymore (basically a Shortcuts, and now, AI blog). App reviews have basically gone instinct. The only remotely interesting thing are the yearly OS reviews. Maybe try pivoting your content instead of... this.

@nileane I admit, being woke was a trend and by then, it was comfortable. You could be woke 'caus it was mainstream.
I hated, that being reasonable was called woke by then.

But f** * them all that now follow the next stream - that also makes me upset

@nileane You have more reason than most to be upset. Sorry if your own income will be impacted but I had to unfollow all the MS accounts here when I saw this yesterday.

I won't comment further on the message you've removed (your post had been cached in my timeline so I saw it) but perhaps writing something, anything, that wasn't always about AI would have helped. Especially for this platform whose users are possibly more than any other, just not interested in it (and that's being polite).

@nileane one thing I would like to add: if you still „need“ Twitter because Dev Twitter or e.g. football Twitter still gives you value - sure go ahead buddy

You suck that value out of there. You do not give anything back.

@nileane I think your feelings are valid and you have every right to be upset