How I escaped Twitter

This is my independent, self-owned social media presence. President, Knowledge Standards Foundation. Ex-founder, Wikipedia. Philosopher, fiddler. Long gone from WP. I blog at LarrySanger.org and make videos on BitChute.org.

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Hi Mr. Sanger,
I’m a student at Cornell working on a project for students which is a series of interviews with accomplished thought and business leaders and innovators aimed at helping and inspiring students to pursue their own business aspirations and other ideas. Since Wikipedia along with your other projects have had an incredible impact on the world by providing almost unlimited amounts of information for free and have been massively successful, your work truly highlights the power of creativity and innovation in inspiring the next generation, which is what this project is for. Would you please be open to participating in a quick, 20 or so minute, interview for this (conducted over Zoom, or any other video call platform) at your convenience? Thank you very much!

Dr. Sanger, Good day. Twitter, like all things, has a purpose; having genuine conversations with real people isn’t it. Thanks for providing this forum. I enjoyed your essays on Christ and His Church. I believe you accomplished your goal; logically defending the faith, to a degree rarely seen. I also appreciate you acknowledging the universe Church and not contributing to the division. With that being said, I’m in the same position (like many others), unable to find a Church that satisfies theological issues; even to the degree you’re able. I go back and forth; how is a teacher allowed to be? Jesus went to the Temples during the rule of the Pharisees. There are so many point you touched on that I’d love to discuss but unfortunately I’m nearly at the limit. I’d like to end with what you touch on about those gentiles B.C. All people, in time, will be confronted with the reality of the supernatural good and evil. Those who chose good and seek it; their choice is honored. Thanks!

Maybe I’ll just go back to posting here. It’s lonelier, yes, but it’s realer.

On X.com, I now have 66,509 followers, which is 28K more than I had at the beginning of February. Also, somebody kindly paid for my X subscription. Still, my engagement is only marginally higher than before. I’m willing to consider seriously the possibility that I’m just not interesting enough to get engagement on X, or not anymore.

I hate to say it, though, but I just don’t think so. My argument is the same as it was before: for several years on Twitter, I *did* have a lot more engagement than I do now. What changed? Not me, I don’t think. But even if it’s true that I have become more boring and irrelevant, in the eyes of the X crowd, it seems to me that’s a good reason to focus my attention on people who I am very sure are (a) human (not bots) and (b) actually interested in interacting.

Apologies for not maintaining SangerFeed (this microblog). I’ve been spending my social media time on X.com, and it’s looking like I’ll switch back here soonish. After a few weeks of excitement over recent posts of mine, and after somebody (possibly, X itself) kindly got me an X subscription for a month, I was getting plenty of traction on some posts. But now I seem to be back to where I was before. I don’t know if my benefactor(s) will keep paying for it, but frankly, I won’t be doing so myself, or, not until I have some big news I need to announce.

For all I know, I never was actually throttled on X—it’s possible. But I do think I was, in fact. And, interestingly, only after a few weeks of excitement, I found that my account was starting to attract the old sort of pornbots of which I blocked many. One leading theory is that the pornbots are used by X to mark accounts that should be throttled. Who knows if it’s true.

What if I were to tell you that many successful people in this world spend most of their time, most days, pretending to be things they definitely are not, not at home or at least not in their heart of hearts—and they carry on such deception quite deliberately, for reasons they would never publicly admit, and some of them achieve great honor and power as a result—and that this deception brings them no end of pleasure, and they have very few compunctions about it? For them, life is a serious role-playing game, and the satisfaction of winning is all that matters. But about the realities underlying this game, they mostly have profoundly dark, cynical contempt. This can be seen in the sort of films and other cultural work they prefer to consume.

Not a few such people have infiltrated our churches. And government (all major parties). And academe. And the corporate, financial, and nonprofit worlds. Etc. (cont’d)

In case you’re wondering why I haven’t posted here in a few days, it is because I am determining whether my X.com account is capable of pre-2022 virality. Someone, maybe X.com staff, gifted me a Premium Plus account on X.com. That was at the same time that a tweet that I made to Elon Musk went absolutely viral. Following that, a tweet I made to President Trump was retweeted by Musk himself. This suggests that I am on the X.com radar, which in turn suggests that my account might have been unthrottled. So I am now just trying to see if that is the case. I suspect not. I have certainly got a bump because my follower numbers ballooned from 48,000 to 66,000 in the space of a month, most of that being in the space of a couple of days. But I just don’t know whether the effects will last.

To make a proper test I actually need try rather hard to see whether a well-written, timely, and otherwise excellent tweet will actually prove popular. The jury is out on that.

I’m gonna have to disagree with Greg regarding U.S. support of Ukraine. We plowed billions of dollars into a deeply corrupt regime, one at the center of global corruption in which the Biden family itself had their fingers. It always did smell to high heaven.

And we did not have the money; we went into more debt, which constituted a tax on all U.S. citizens. At the same time we were sending more billions to Ukraine, we let the people of the flood-ravaged South suffer without help. And it made no difference to the outcome.

Meanwhile, we must properly count the human cost of war, which is horrific and easy to lose sight of if your country is not the one in the war.

Russia has taken back what was, not that long ago, Russian territory (i.e., from before the Soviet Union), and the majority of which is Russian-speaking. As long as they don’t continue on their march, and are willing to accept a cease-fire, this is by far the best expectable outcome.

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