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.