Everyone knows I was permanently suspended from X in early Feb 2025? 15 years of tweeting whatever I wanted about the rich & powerful & Mr Free Speech gave me the boot two weeks after Trump was sworn in. I did download my archive on Jan 14 2025. I have screenshots you can't find anymore. 😎
(The email from X stated I was permanently banned for being "inauthentic", whatever the fuck that means.)
I left Twitter the day after the election. I sometimes lurk. Apparently, at some point, Elon locked my pseudonym account. Were they looking at my old tweets and used them against me? Who knows, but good riddance.
I have access but 10 minutes is my limit. Musk has flooded X with the same old same old tired right wing influencers who are pushing the same crap they pushed a decade ago. Even Bannon called Raheem Kassam a lazy bum. Big yawn.
It’s a firehose of misinformation, crypto scams, porn, and violence. You’re correct. It’s old and lazy.
As I posted the other day, I knew X was FUBAR when I saw Gays Against Groomers founder Jaimee Michell got 26.9M views for a fairly innocuous tweet on Dec 16 2024. Musk was obviously boosting her stats to boost her payout.
There’s the other insidious side, Elon is throttling credible accounts and amplifying crackpot conspiracy accounts. It’s a waste of our time over there. Unfortunately, we get very little engagement here, but at least it’s not a sewer. My feed is not cluttered with BS here.
Bluesky suits me just fine. Make it interesting & they will come. ;-)