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To me this also seems like the right attitude and the right comment.

The author blames twitter for negativity and arguments, but spent quite some time on his post criticising the new Twitter ownership and then went on a rant about Elon Musk. How is that better.

Is the idea here that people should express their criticisms on blogs rather than tweets? But blogs have to be shared on some kind of social media to be read by others too (like this on on HN).

I would agree more with the message of "do what you like and don't go around telling others what they should be doing". Doesn't matter the platform. If everyone practiced this then most problems with social media would go away.

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I'm also curious who submitted this to HN? Was it the author trying to monetize their blog?

No. I'm the article author, and I didn't submit it to HN.

> The author blames twitter for negativity and arguments, but spent quite some time on his post criticising the new Twitter ownership and then went on a rant about Elon Musk. How is that better.

> Is the idea here that people should express their criticisms on blogs rather than tweets? But blogs have to be shared on some kind of social media to be read by others too (like this on on HN).

My blog is mostly technical, focusing on software development. As far as I can recall, this is the only instance I've ever gotten "political" on the blog. It's an exception, not the rule. I was wary about doing it. And I purposely put that discussion in the addendum, because the main point of the article wasn't about Musk.

I wrote the addendum because I knew that some people would be curious exactly why I left Twitter, and also because I did feel like ranting about Musk, which I generally didn't do on either Twitter or my blog until the very end. (Before he acquired Twitter, I had blocked his account and muted all mentions of him.)

> wrote the addendum because I knew that some people would be curious exactly why I left Twitter, and also because I did feel like ranting about Musk

To me the "addendum" was the low point of the article. Because it turned what might have been a principled position into a semi-coherent rant about politics, former US president, climate change, and "Muskrat", which in it self resembles the worst kind of twitter threads.

I don't understand why people do these things, but just like twitter - your post would also be better without this type of stuff. Just personal opinion.

To end on a positive note - I like your apps and the spartan css style of the blog. So this is a friendly message :)

> To me the "addendum" was the low point of the article. Because it turned what might have been a principled position into

It was a principled position, and more important, it was the truth about why I left Twitter.

I don't think that omitting the truth to make a better story would be a good idea. It's not honest. I realized after leaving Twitter that I didn't want to go back to the social media experience, but that wasn't actually the reason I left.

> To end on a positive note - I like your apps and the spartan css style of the blog.

Thanks!

> So this is a friendly message :)

I'd say it's a mixed message. ;)

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