@griotspeak I think that the last bits I’ll add are these since I understand that you can’t spend all day going back and forth
\nCurrently, no microblog user is crossposting to X from the app. If they post to X, they have chosen to go against the friction of that fact. Adding this feature removes that friction. That helps X, even if it also strengthens ‘blogs’ somehow.
\nOf the people voicing support for this decision, how many are marginalized? People of color, queer, etc. Many people quietly leave the room in response to these kinds of decisions so it’s easy to miss the fact that it’s happening or has happened.
\n@manton I understand the framing but I guess I just disagree with the idea that you are only strengthening blogs. There is something that you give in exchange for that strength–credibility and relevance at the very least. It seems clear to me that there are more concerns here for you than I am admitting in to my reasoning but that’s a response to how obvious certain problems have become.
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\nThat said, the issue is “trending toward supporting these platforms and their harm as opposed to away”. Restoring support for X makes it plain that you aren’t really moving away from supporting these platforms and their harms. It is imperfect, but it is–at least in some way–consistent to aim for attrition if nothing else.
\n","url":"https://micro.blog/griotspeak/93996948","date_published":"2026-07-14T17:32:48+00:00","author":{"name":"TJ Usiyan","url":"http://www.mod12.com","avatar":"https://cdn.micro.blog/photos/96/https%3A%2F%2Fwww.gravatar.com%2Favatar%2F8083ad16248b8c031cc10d44f47aa442%3Fs%3D96%26d%3Dhttps%253A%252F%252Fmicro.blog%252Fimages%252Fblank_avatar.png","_microblog":{"username":"griotspeak"}},"_microblog":{"date_relative":"17:32","date_timestamp":1784050368,"is_favorite":false,"is_bookmark":false,"is_deletable":false,"is_conversation":true,"is_linkpost":false,"is_mention":true}},{"id":"93995880","content_html":"@manton It seems that I completely missed Vincent Ritter related discussion. Yeah… especially with that in the past… please don’t do this. Again, there is no neutral way through this. I understand trying to be nuanced for whatever reasons but this simply isn’t a worthwhile place to exercise that kind of nuance. It is support for X no matter how gated behind whether a user enables it.
\n","url":"https://micro.blog/griotspeak/93995880","date_published":"2026-07-14T17:10:41+00:00","author":{"name":"TJ Usiyan","url":"http://www.mod12.com","avatar":"https://cdn.micro.blog/photos/96/https%3A%2F%2Fwww.gravatar.com%2Favatar%2F8083ad16248b8c031cc10d44f47aa442%3Fs%3D96%26d%3Dhttps%253A%252F%252Fmicro.blog%252Fimages%252Fblank_avatar.png","_microblog":{"username":"griotspeak"}},"_microblog":{"date_relative":"2026-07-14 17:10","date_timestamp":1784049041,"is_favorite":false,"is_bookmark":false,"is_deletable":false,"is_conversation":true,"is_linkpost":false,"is_mention":true}},{"id":"93994465","content_html":"@manton Please don’t do this. I admit that I am basically ignoring what must be a fight to maintain “relevance” for lack of a better term but I can only say that the loss of goodwill is more significant than you seem to be estimating. I have had a paid subscription for micro blog since the beginning. I realize that I basically don’t use micro blog because I also have a self hosted masto instance but I have not cancelled because I have wanted to support the platform at least in this way. Restoring cross posting to X is literally the first thing to make me reconsider that. Maybe there have been other decisions that I missed but I doubt it. My upset isn’t even about “impact”. It’s about principles and the idea that Elon Musk should genuinely be treated as a contaminant. He is a white nationalist who has literally and completely explicitly worked to subvert the US political system and, through DOGE, has killed an untold number. This is t speculation. Any amount of support for his holdings is suspect at best.
\nThere is no neutral path in this. His actions, even his purchase of X, has been obviously political. Reenabling support for X lends some amount of support to his efforts.
\nPlease, do not do this.
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