Then I watched the Musk affair take over, and now the website is a blatantly obvious US government honeypot. It probably still will exist in 10 years, but be embroiled in some sort of site-redefining drama that everyone takes personally yet refuses to do anything about. The "Twitter/X is finally good again" posts will age like fine wine in retrospect, they're always self-serving and empty.

> The culture on X today is remarkably friendly and inclusive. It is a cheerful place.

That does not describe any social media platform, they are not designed and optimized that way, that's the algorithmic manipulation coming through.

Ceasing the use of these platforms is a top life decision for me, many people say the same thing when they give them up. I hope we seem more small social platforms in the future.