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4/6 Another reason I still (unfortunately) rely on X is that certain core communities are based there. Much of web dev (although there’s also a growing community of web geeks here on Mastodon) and nearly all of the AI app crowd are still based on X. Maybe that will slowly change, but it’ll be in years not months.
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I'm glad to read you acknowledge how "unfortunate" remaining 'there' is. But c'mon shake the tree, because supporting that platform under its current admin is a real compromise of personal dignity, ethics and morality.

how long can you be good with that?

All of us lost an amazing place when twitter died.

we need to make choices now or just become assimilated

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Richard MacManus 2y ago

nostr:npub1924rd0jcf5psd54fckp85r3cf08f2ahx522mxyt0quj4mp035uus97w5ra the choice I've made is to mostly *write* on Mastodon. Admittedly, I still use X extensively to do my job as a journalist and I promote my various pieces of writing there. Maybe the next step for me is to stop posting on X, even if it means less people read my articles. Perhaps I'm a bad person, but I'm not quite ready to do that yet...social media to me is mainly a tool, to both do my job and promote my work. Altho I do use Mastodon to, well, socialize (e.g. sharing my thoughts)