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PSA for @svelte.dev users: we're planning to change how effect teardowns work to eliminate a common gotcha that affects signal-based frameworks. If the new behaviour would create problems for you, please let us know! github.com/sveltejs/sve...

Y’all gonna post this on social networks with lots of users, or just here…

Maybe those users should just come over to where the news is

Vibes are awful here, compared to there, if we're being honest.

unlike X, your experience here is entirely determined by the choices you've made about which people/feeds to follow. if you're experiencing bad vibes, it's a you problem for me, X is a wasteland. all the interesting people left long ago, and the algorithm feeds me ragebait and grifter junk

Saying all the interesting people left Twitter is just hilarious cope. And I mean yeah I could unfollow all the people posting the pining political crap but ...

depends what you find interesting. the vast majority of the musicians/writers/reporters/foodies/scientists etc that made X interesting (to me) — in other words, the creatives — have very largely abandoned ship. if you only care about tech and don't mind being part of the fascism machine, X is fine

> and don't mind being part of the fascism machine mannnn this smug self righteousness is a terrible look I'll put it to you this way: all the wonderful, _brilliant_ people I enjoyed chatting with at your employer's conference last October are all on Twitter still 😉

X is a platform that amplifies the enemies of liberal democracy, run by a drug-addled megalomaniac who is in the process of illegally dismantling the government. people have already died as a result of his actions. by continuing to spend time there, you are lending him support, and poisoning your

I've tended to notice that people in the tech industry tend to consider themselves 'apolitical' or straight up don't pay attention to what's happening outside their bubble. To be honest, I thought you were different — your personal brand is 'outraged centrist liberal feminist dad'.

I think considering oneself "apolitical" is a privilege as it implies that no matter what politic does, one will not be affected, maybe through status or resources.

absolutely! i also think that a lot of people are drawn to programming because ones and zeroes are orderly, unlike the messy world of human affairs

There's some pretty bleak shit going on right now. I don't like to dwell on it — I'm 'protecting my peace' as gen Z says, and I don't think of myself as a particularly political person — but I'm also not going to ignore it. Not supporting X is the easiest test any of us will face in the coming years

👏👏👏👏

If you hadn't isolated yourself in this insular little bubble you wouldn't have described me so poorly. Centrist for me is absurd and I imagine you'd get a good laugh if you posted that on X. There are valuable / valued connections I have on Twitter, and I'm not leaving because the owner sucks shit

I've been using your software since the early Ractive days. I'm grateful you are a person of moral clarity as well as a genuinely inspiring library designer. People like you give me hope.