eXodus

If you're reading this, and you're still on X, I'm kindly asking that you leave. It is no longer Twitter. It's a sister site to Truth Social, Gab, and 4chan. If you do not have a good reason to have accounts on those sites, you do not have a good reason to stay on X.

If you've already left, thank you.

I left two years ago and I'm fine. The last time I legitimately logged in to read my feed was October of 2022, the week Musk bought it. I deleted my account permanently the night before Twitter officially became X. I'm on both Mastodon and Bluesky, and they're ok. They're unquestionably better than whatever it is Twitter has become.

One thing I'd love to see Biden do in his remaining months in office is to pull every official account from X and formally write that decision into policy. When Twitter was an open site that allowed people to follow accounts for important, potentially life-saving information, it made perfect sense to post there. It is now actually harmful in that hurricane warning alerts are sandwiched between racist memes posted by Musk and Hitler-praising posts by some no-name bluecheck.

Obviously, that official position would be immediately reversed by Trump. But the ensuing media storm around the decision would be worth it. We'd get a news cycle explaining why the US government will no longer post to X, and then a second news cycle explaining why Trump would reinstate those accounts on a Nazi website. Even if nothing really changes in the end, that's a lot of words and air time spent explaining to the American people exactly what kind of website X is.

Elon Musk spent millions of dollars to reelect Trump, and spent the night at Mar-a-Lago celebrating their win. If you yourself would not have attended that party, you should not continue to visit its online counterpart. X is now a functional extension of the new Trump Administration. There are better places to be.