Just a reminder that the algorithm is trying to maximize unregretted user-seconds.
— Elon Musk (@elonmusk) December 27, 2024
If far more credible, verified subscriber accounts (not bots) mute/block your account compared to those who like your posts, your reach will decline significantly.
Trump gets it.
— Ian Miles Cheong (@stillgray) December 27, 2024
Donald Trump: “If you graduate from a U.S. college—two-year, four-year, or doctoral—you should automatically get a green card to stay.
Too often, talented grads are forced to leave and start billion-dollar companies in India or China instead of here.
That… pic.twitter.com/ElpR8PFk7h
“They call them ‘H-1B Visas,’ George. I can get a foreign worker and pay him half the wage as someone from Bedford Falls!
— Michael Cassidy ?? ?? (@MichaelCassidy) December 26, 2024
You’re a sucker, like your old man, if you *don’t* use them.” pic.twitter.com/rTBNlGVUao
Here is why I was already considering giving it up in 2025:
- It is a massive time sink. I constantly find myself neglecting more important tasks because of mindless scrolling and notifications are robbing my attention
- I developed my posting habit a decade ago in the pre-censorship, pre-Trump era, but the app has fundamentally changed since then. Initially, I hoped the Musk era would bring back the old Twitter, but it is clear now that is never going to happen
- The 2024 election was a lot of fun, but that is over now
- If you are not paying for their shitty service, you are essentially posting to a spam folder. You don’t have “freedom of reach.” The reach is the whole point of spending time on social media
- Even if you do pay for X, you are punished for posting outbound links. You don’t even have the reach of pre-Musk, Jack Dorsey draconian censorship Twitter
- Fundamentally, X has become a place for people like Ian Miles Cheong to post slop. It is not an organic platform. I spent months posting tongue-in-cheek jokes about how Elon Musk is “the boss” because the platform is so obviously his rigged little playpen
The final straw came last night when Musk had a meltdown over all the criticism about Indian immigration and started de-verifying, demonetizing and shadow banning people on the Right who had criticized him. He followed it up by retweeting this clip from Ian Miles Cheong.
Instead of further wasting my time on X and the Pajeets who run that shitty app, I am considering trying out Substack which encourages long form articles instead of hot takes, which no one is going to see anyway. Also, the writing is on the wall at X after the events of the last 48 hours.
UPDATE:
Keeping out infinite Pajeet H-1B immigrants is about *checks notes* … your personal gain.
My account on X is tiny as you know. It definitely is a platform where if you don’t know people, then your posts don’t get out.
Substack has the same problem though. If you don’t have followers nobody sees you.
The forum format is the best for unknown people to start topics. The biggest forum website is reddit, but it heavily censors the right.
Brad, your follower will follow you even on substack.
Stop using what amounts to an enemy platform. Go over to Torba’s Gab is you’re into social media. This goes for all kinds of things. Oh, and start building more of our own platforms of all kinds. About the only two folks on our side of all this who are actually putting their money where their mouths are are Torba and Vox Day.
I was netcopped off of Twitter since March 2022 (pre-Elon), because I called out a stabby Somalian as such.
I have a burner account which I just started utilizing only to use Grok (their AI), but not other than that.
Now, suddenly, I’m glad, and perhaps it’s all for the best, that I’m not on Twitter/X anymore. Would rather not live in Elon’s ego, even for the other good things he has done.
And, in all reality, even if I was still on Twitter/X, I wouldn’t be reaching any more people than I would with me using Gab, Minds, Telegram, Gettr and Truth (plus my own blog) that I actually am right now. The main reason is that I don’t have a clickbait-y personality, and I don’t instinctively go with the takes that gets a lot of reposts and thumbs up.
“Two year college” = “Talented grads”? Has he ever met a community college student? It is frankly embarrassing that they would try to lower the bar that far. Even grad schools would be pushing it since you can include a paint-by-numbers MBA in that.
In California i remember a local JC that had become a hotbed of visiting Japanese students for some reason. Well-behaved as they were i don’t remember anyone saying they were the lifeblood of America.
I recommended Elon Musk just put Andrew Torba in charge of Twitter so that Musk himself can concentrate on his real passion project, Space X.
If he turns X into an echo chamber, he will get bored. The only reason he had ever had any fun on Twitter/X is because it exposed him to genuinely new ideas he never would have otherwise encountered. Why even bother signing on just to read sycophants like Cheong repeating Musk’s own ideas?
X like Space X like Tesla like Facebook like Amazon etc are all jew and DARPA military fronts for surveillance, track and trace, consolidation of power, bio digital convergence. Musk is an idiot as is Bezos, Zuckerberg etc they are just the faces presented to the stupid public and shields for the international jew bankers out of the City of London, Geneva, Basel, Brussels or wherever their banksters hide.
this is guy is talking about gun rights, saying in part:
“…what government is if it was a human being it’s why we have to do things like sue them and you know destroy them politically and you know that’s the only thing they really understand …”
sub the word ‘Jew’ for ‘human being’ and you’ll see the course we need to be on.
Yeah well, the election is over, so time to cull the herd. You were only needed until election day.
(((Elon Musk))), the CIAs top front man, IS the right now, along with the homosexual PayPal mafia, and the California Jews and Pajeets from Sillycon valley. That is the right the CIA has built. It’s a small club, and we ain’t in it.
I am surprised Substack is still standing. Probably (((Musk))) will buy it soon. Telegram is still good. That will be the last ditch, after Substack falls. But set one up and I will be a paid subscriber
I’m back on Gab
I might give Substack a whirl next year. Musk blocks links to it
These Asians just don’t get it. We don’t care if they studied here for whatever number of years. We DON’T want to be replaced. Take your degrees back home to benefit your own country, and effing leave us alone.
In Australia, we’ve always known that Indian and Chinese student visas are just a back door to permanent residency. A total rort.
As for Musk……those who support the driverless, EV transition are usually also leftists who support mass immigration. He pretends to be on your side by opposing illegal immigration, whilst supporting our replacement via LEGAL immigration which is a far greater threat because it’s bigger and goes largely unreported and unchallenged.
Billionaires don’t give a shit about us. They spit on the working class. Never trust, or praise them.
Sigh (I Know at least one OD reader hates when I write “Sigh”)
X (formerly Twitter) is having it’s short time as the place to be for ha wite free speech, kind of like Talk Radio with Rush Limblob/Howard Stern Opie and Anthony was back in their day.
X is feeling a lot like “MySpace”.
Can’t this Elon Musk by some TV cable news networks, feature pretty ha white female news presenters like Meagan Kelly or now Brett Cooper?
Hey B/Hunter W – I have the annual year end “White Majority Traitor of the Year” nominations blog ready in blog. It’s nothing controversial . I’ll post tomorrow unless I hear differently.
Thanks brother.
JR
PS. Let’s consider ending reader comments in 2025 – or I might just walk away , go the Amish route. We’re seeing some cat fighting, flame wars, not much networking to reverse the decline and fall of ha Wite Western Civilization.
I never use substack I just come here. Not too interested in all the bloviating overly intellectual articles on that website.