X.com (and other circa-2025 social media) is increasingly artificial, manipulative, an ultimately infantile game.
The reason that my own social media site feels so liberating is that, as I have come to realize, the problem with X.com, and of course, the others, is that they all feel completely inhuman and deeply estranging. Here, I might only be talking to a handful of people, but I can vouch for the fact that this is very real; no one is being manipulated, except maybe by me. đŸ˜†
And when somebody shows up to interact, that’s nice. It’s like a guest arriving. This is not the same thing as a giant group chat on a big social media platform. I kind of miss that, how it used to be and how it still is on a smaller scale on local installs. But I feel no pull to engage in such discussions on X.com anymore, for example, because of the overwhelming sense of unreality such discussions now have for me. It’s just over.