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.