@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 Oh, and also - tell Myke at Relay that Connected is off my list due to your participation. @imyke

@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?

https://stefanbohacek.com/blog/fediverse-an-overview-for-community-organizers/#case-studies-forkiverse

@viticci this is tough to read. I think business wise you would be better off creating a new website for all the AI stuff. I get that’s what you’re passionate about and I don’t fault you for that, but trying to drag Macstories with you and saying it’s just more automation feels off to me.

Going back to X is a doozy. That’s where the AI audience is, but I think to all of us that left for principled reasons watching people go back, makes us realise that us leaving had no effect and that hurts.

@viticci Hey - thanks for the apology… I'm still pretty disappointed with this move, after y'all wrote before how you quit Twitter and Threads out of principle, and now you come back, and pay for a premium account, even though nothing changed there… but I understand that running a business is hard.

@viticci The fact that this is posted here and not on MacStories is illustrating the problem - it feels sneaky. I unsubscribed months ago because of the pivot from apps to AI, and after this I think the respect is gone for good.

@viticci they’re making fun of you guys all over my timeline, btw. calling you sellouts, basically. said you went full bandwagon already. just fyi.

@viticci Nope.

@viticci@macstories.net dude just fuck off from the fediverse if you are so invested in white supremacism. like, you know it's wrong, why don't you at least try to hide it and delete your account entirely

@viticci gross. I was disappointed with you all for posting so much AI garbage recently, but this is next level.