Twitter has gone from being captured by an ideology to captured by a cult of personality and they’re both dangerous for different reasons. I didn’t tiptoe around the last regime. I won’t lick the boots of the new one. Either way, that place has been dying a slow death for quite some time.
One of the hardest lessons I’ve taken forever to learn in life is to go where I’m valued.
Substack wants us to win. It wants better dialogue. Substack wins if we win. These make for the best partnerships. Mutual respect comes from recognizing one another’s value.
It doesn’t come from being trolled or negged or bullied into joining a social media site. That might have been something that worked on me when I had no self-worth but now it’s transparently insecure and I’d rather spend my time and effort building something new and different over here.
