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Gabe Hudson's avatar

This all rang true, sadly. Everyone is scattering all over the place & my sense is the turd & the Saudis & other investors did this to destroy what was an incredible engine for communication & democracy & news & that the 44b loss was a price they were happy to pay.

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Chad Aaron Hall's avatar

I kinda just walked away from X like a car on the side of the road with the keys left on the tire.

It wasn’t because of ideological reasons because it’s always easy to find one of those wherever you go.

It wasn’t because of changes to the platform, because honestly it’s been sucking for longer than the current phase--probably six or seven years.

I left because it bored me.

It was like one day I woke up and I was like, eh, this is lame. This posting for popularity thing, and weeding through ads, and fighting algorithms to find stuff I want, it’s all kinda pathetic.

So I just kinda left it frozen as it was. Instead, I started putting my random thoughts into my journals. And that lead to writing more on Substack. And it’s...pleasant.

I feel human again.

Now I use X solely to post links to my Substack, which just endlessly entertaining and childishly devious.

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