True, X is becoming unbearable. Used to be - 90% of replies were from normal people. Nowadays, it is just 90% bots in all replies. Maybe the result of firing 70% of the employees shows up after some delay.
It’s as if a city laid off the entire fire department and then announced they would pay people for starting fires. You can argue all day about which decision was dumber, but it doesn’t matter. The whole city’s burning.
I too am annoyed at that part of our fellow humans, which slapps its' fleshy bony extremities on our non-brethren computers, to disagree with our opinions. I wish humans would stay out of our circuits and networks, and express their disagreements by smacking and undulating their fleshy flaps, while forcing air through their wet fleshy bags. So icky. Stay off our networks, and poke each other with deceased rods of cellulose, you imbecilic primitive life forms! Leave computers be!
I find X to be far more enjoyable than at any time in the past, but I suspect that's because we have different politics. Peak unusability on Twitter for me was, say, 2016-2021, a period during which people who disagreed with me on there literally emailed my boss to try to cause trouble for me, a period in which I was routinely piled-on and called the most offensive and ridiculous names by massive accounts for relatively banal and benign moderate opinions.
That's all mostly gone now and many of the most insufferable users (from my point of view) have moved elsewhere.
People who happen to have accepted the dominant Twitter culture of that period don't see any of this in the same way a fish doesn't know what water is.
It’s not 2015 anymore and I’m not going to have a conversation with you about whether cancel culture is real or if maybe actually everybody complaining about it just simply deserved it. If you want to have that debate, then you’re going to need either a time machine or another interlocutor.
