#except for the bots and some violent speech that pop up periodically on my feed the algorithm keeps recommending the accounts i wanted

[attheexactlyrighttimeandplace]

An update:

This flight towards X turns out to be a trap. I migrated to the X because after October 7, I needed to read, as I need air, serious and solid factual analyses, made by mature and experienced professionals: independent experts such as lawyers, professors, researchers, retired judges in history, geopolitics and international law, who would not turn any qualified opponent commentator on the subject of Palestine into an incompetent who must be canceled, just because he doesn't like gays (I'm thinking of Norman Finkelstein even if I myself ignore him more often than I admit because he tends to speak too much for the Palestinians).

But hey, it is now impossible to ignore that X is not a social network but a prison. A high-security unit that monitors everything you create and spends its time erasing your content as if you have no right to speech and expression. The level of dispossession and violation of free speech is unprecedented with anything that happened to me on Tumblr.

X offers the privilege of accessing the most competent people in the world and reading their most personal conclusions that they usually share with their students or peers, but it is only a hanging carrot: I cannot love their posts, reblog them or respond unless I accept that the porn bots, which are actually under the control of the platform, are doing their job of liking my posts, because this allows them to influence the algorithm!

Since I blocked bots, X deletes all my activity. I had a suspicion that their ratio was completely made up and arbitrarily, but observing with my own eyes an entire thread that I liked and reblogged appears on my feed like it was the first time I saw it, cleaned of my activity - takes things to another level.

I will not mention all the alerts I have sent about violent accounts that call for physical violence against people who defend Palestine or even simply the application of Human Rights. Even those who threaten leaders and heads of state do not receive warning!

Either way, if you're considering opening an account on X, try to remember that this is Elon Musk's world, and therefore his rules.