Thanks, I appreciate it. Either Elon is in charge or he isn’t. Either way, things are not good.
I explained why I’m moving to my own platform here: larrysanger.org/2024/12…
Thanks for the reply, Adam.
Can they coexist? Well, sure, they can, and that was my intention when first starting Minifeed (2020-21). But, well, read the post. I’m disgusted, I feel manipulated and silenced, and I’m not going to play their game anymore.
I am actually pretty sure that in the long run, LarrySanger.org + SangerFeed.org will get me a bigger impact on the world than working in a deliberately silenced backwater on some spook’s carefully controlled website.
It’s true that a new login is friction. That’s the price you pay. I’m OK with paying it. I’m done with X.
Sure, Jan.
Maybe for you. Not for me.
UPDATE: Did I perhaps misunderstand you? Are you saying “hey they’re returning to the bad old days and so you should get a bump in your reach now,” or “It’s actually a good time to get out, as it’s getting even worse”?
Reply thread!
I’m going to go through replies to me made on X.com, and reply to them here. For each, I guess I’ll post a link to the reply on X. I hope you’ll make an account and continue the discussion here, at least insofar as you want to chat with me.
I’m mad as hell, and I’m not going to take it anymore. Here is “Why I’m Moving from X.com to SangerFeed.org”: larrysanger.org/2024/12…
Inviting feedback from the easy grace camp and dispensationalists. 🧵
This, like some passages in Isaiah and Psalms, is taken as a key *Christian* prophecy (and I agree, it certainly is):
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Ezekiel 36:26-27 KJV
A new heart also will I give you, and a new spirit will I put within you: and I will take away the stony heart out of your flesh, and I will give you an heart of flesh. [27] And I will put my spirit within you, and cause you to walk in my statutes, and ye shall keep my judgments, and do them.
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Note what it doesn’t say. It doesn’t say, “I will give you a heart of flesh and I will put my spirit within you, and you will prosper.” Nor “…and you will believe fervently.” Nor “…and you will be free of the law.” No, it says, “…and cause you to walk in my statutes”.
James says as much; Paul does as well. Jesus certainly does, indeed it’s one of his main themes. The Gospel *is* the coming of the healing Spirit who fills us with faith indeed, but that leads to a faithful walk.
Svigel’s “Theology 101” posts are gold. (Until Minifeed supports importing tweets, I’ll just screenshot them like this.)
This from Elon Musk could explain why I am throttled on X.com.
But I humbly submit that my case shows the short-sightedness of the rule. Yes, it’s quite plausible that my account was blocked and muted a lot, because I do rub certain lovers of the Establishment the wrong way, let’s just say. But perhaps it’s mainly because I block and mute a lot.
In any case, what’s short-sighted is Musk’s failure to see that important voices can be blocked widely by one camp but highly valued by another. Musk’s policy treats the entire user base as a whole unified community, which of course it is not.
From a visit home (Alaska). Kenai Peninsula, late October 2016. #AlaskaBeauty
I’m excited to see the first new accounts and posts being made on SangerFeed.org! Welcome, everyone!
Forget about me pushing shareable versions of these posts to X.com. I will not be doing so. You will have to screenshot them or something. Or not. I have ceased to care.
Today we celebrate an event of cosmic proportions: when the long-prophesied once-and-forever King of Israel finally arrived in the world. The King was called the Anointed One, the Messiah, the Christ. The secret kept by the creator of the universe himself was that he would come to earth as this long-prophesied Christ, incarnate in human flesh, to be raised by humble and poor parents. Later, he would reveal himself, at first by signs and wonders and at last by words, that he was indeed both the King of Israel and Son of God. But the worldly leaders of the Israelites, with few exceptions, rejected both claims and, by putting him to death, made their king “the Lamb of God.” He died and rose again, as only the Incarnate God could do, for all of our sins. He rose again on the third day and instructed his disciples to preach to the entire world, not just their fellow Jews, the good news that God came to earth in human flesh to heal us all from the deadly effects of our own sins. Praise God!
France is bacon. (Image found on X.)
Merry Christmas!
For my present I would like you to make an account on SangerFeed.org and interact with me, or else I’ll get lonely. 😁
I think the system might need a little work before this is possible, so please bear with me.
LarrySanger.org and SangerFeed.org is where I shall hold forth, looks like. Ye’ll have to come here if you want to chat with me. 🤷♂️