@viticci Thanks for making a statement about this, but the decision still doesn't sit well with me. I hope you continue to be active here.

@viticci You’re free to make money however you want but I’m not sure I’ll even bother with @connected if you think it’s okay to hang with someone you ‘abhor’ for a quick buck.

@viticci that’s the worst move ever

@viticci
I don't have any 'skin in the game' with regard to owning/running a business.

But I do from the perspective of social/professional networking. I lost that when I quit Twitter.

IMHO, the takeaway for all of us is we need to convince friends, family, and everyone else to leave* capitalist social media...and decrease, if not eliminate, the incentive for others to stay.

*That means deleting your account, not just going dormant.

@viticci Thank you for letting everyone know your pro nazi stance so they can respond accordingly.

@viticci it must have been an incredibly difficult decision, as the creator and “leading man” of Macstories, to prioritize the business’ needs over your strong values and I commend you for it. Sucks @johnvoorhees and you mistakenly didn't share it with your team prior to doing so but thankfully life’s mistakes bring us great lessons.

Like you I wish you didn’t have to contribute to Musk either but I continue, excitedly, to support your work and am excited to see the company continue to grow.

@viticci if you are willing to pay Elon Musk money for growing your audience clearly I’m not the kind of person you want in it anymore.

So this is good bye, good luck with your future endeavors with your new audience.

@viticci I understand the economic constraints, but it’s still very depressing to see that nothing ever changes in this regard. Everyone is still on X because everyone else is still on X and everyone hates it? Really? It would only need a few large organisations, government administrations, and influential individuals who don’t feel economic coercion to lead an exodus, and X would be nothing.

@viticci

Don't fucking care at all.

You hang out with Nazis, you're a Nazi.

Don't like it? Stop doing it.

@viticci don't want to post it on the main site because you don't want the people you hope will come from Twitter seeing it?

I don't know what the Club looked like before the AI pivot, but my guess is that the content is what's driven the loss in subscriptions, not "other subscription services".

You talk about lots of nebulous plans to expand coverage of what your old subscribers actually did care about but there's nothing concrete. There's no reason to trust that you're actually going to do that, especially now that you're back on Twitter to court the AI people.

There's the old joke about the guy who wouldn't want to be a part of any club that would have him as a member. I wouldn't want to be a part of a club that would have a bunch of 2026 Twitter users as members.

@viticci You’ve reversed a decision made 4 years ago which you proudly declared as representing your principles. You now advocate readers giving $100s in monthly subs to companies you once asked for Congress to take action against. It is disingenuous to claim your values haven’t changed.

@viticci Yeah nope. I'm out.

@viticci Shameful. Too late. Too little. In a Craft doc. Sad.

@viticci hope you find the readership you’re looking for; you’ve lost my clicks.

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