It's been a tough few years for MacStories.
An explanation of why we resumed posting on X, and what comes next:
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@viticci I support you 10000%.
I’m on X too. It’s great. I wish you much success
@viticci you have sinned in the church of Mastodon, now you must pay 😂
@viticci nope. I’ll miss your blogs and podcasts but that’s inexcusable. Enjoy the nazi bar.
@viticci I hope the folks who are swearing you off and accusing you of being a fascist don’t shop at Amazon or Walmart or use Threads or Instagram, for starters.
I appreciate it was a tough decision. I hope you continue to stick to your ideals and run the business as well as you can. I’ll stay engaged.
@viticci thanks for this — I really appreciate the time and care that went into it
@viticci Have fun hanging out with the Nazis, rapists and other scumbags! You are literally helping them grow their brand too.
To which I say: YUCK!
But hey, at least your AI girlfriends "like" you.
@viticci in 2022 leaving Twitter was the right decision. Good, you had some principles. It was the right decision for me too - though I had no skin in the game. 4 years later has something about the platform gotten better? Or was your principled stand more about trying to get off a social media platform going downhill and on one with some momentum? And now, will X welcome you back or will they remember your perfidy as you help feed the enragement? Congrats, you & MacStories get blocked too.
@viticci We all use platforms, purchase from companies, and pay taxes that are used for things we disagree with. We can use our voices to push against those. There’s a strong purity testing culture on Mastodon that can’t see this nuance and reduce complex decisions to black-and-white straw man arguments.
@viticci unimpressed.
"The true measure of a man is not how he behaves in moments of comfort and convenience but how he stands at times of controversy and challenges"
@viticci Money has gotten us in a fight for the survival of humanity. Values have to be more important. Your new passion of AI is only adding to the degradation of the planet. More interesting articles would be better than dropping your values.
@viticci Honestly, nah. If you need to suck at the teet of a nazi to stay in business, you shouldn’t be in business.
@viticci " A substantial part of the audience interested in what we cover is still on X, and by leaving the platform, we stopped reaching those people [...]"
I'm curious if you actually tried to actively encourage people to follow you here.
On a related note, have you read about The Forkiverse?
