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Not only was “Well, I’m back” a perfect way for J. R. R. Tolkien to end The Lord of the Rings, it also sums up my little adventure with X.com.

As mentioned, the migration of twitter.com to x.com left me cold.

Twitter was well established by the time I stumbled across it back in the day, but it was still new. Words can’t begin to describe how wonderful that introduction to the world was.

I thought that heritage should be continually referenced.

So I sailed away from the new x.com. To make a long story short, among other things I discovered a Twitter-like platform that seemed to beckon me in like a return home.

I was happy for a while. Then the account specializing in cats, the other day, posted a hot-button political thing imaged as a cat along with overly innocent shock that people had responded to the hot topic in angry disagreement.

So I unfollowed that account.

Then a physics account I followed reposted the hot-button cat post in what was now a crusade against haters.

So I unfollowed the physics account and also recalled that this was the Twitter experience around the time of Mr. Musk’s intervention.

And then I recalled a few other posts recently on that platform calling for mandatory alt text rules before images could be shared.

It then occurred to me that the Twitter I had enjoyed so much had morphed into something else long before it was sold, leaving only happy memories, not heritage, and that my experience of it after the purchase — and after the departure of so many latter-day pharisees — had improved and was enjoyable, too, but in a more advanced 21st-century way.

And there is nothing wrong with that.

So I’m back on X now, and whole-heartedly, too. 🙂

The adventure did show me that Facebook is a valuable resource, too, despite its annoying pushiness.

And if anyone wants to look me up in a sunny.garden, well, heidy-ho and let’s kick back there some Caturday. 😎

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Featured image: Jo Crebbin/Shutterstock

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