I've had zero social media outside Telegram meme channels and using TikTok for a business venture, an experience I despised to my core.

Started a Substack recently and decided there's no choice but to bite the bullet and sign up for Elon's X in order to have a shot at getting enough readers to make it worthwhile.

My experience signing up...

-download X

-requests phone number, select "use email instead", nice 😏

-answer a few more questions, requests phone number again. now impossible to click past

-enter burner phone number

-"unable to register account with this number, please try again"

-grit teeth, cringe, enter personal cell number I've had for 15 years

-"unable to register account with this number, please try again"

-😡😡😡

-delete app

Don't know if it's possible to grow an audience exclusively on decentralized platforms, but that's where I'm at. A pox on centralized social media, and on the executives who make using it a living hell. Nostr only for me, I'll give it a fair shot before passing judgement.