Comments on: Twenty Years of Blogging!

By: Jim

Jim — Tue, 23 Jan 2024 17:14:58 +0000

Isegoria: “Jim, I do wonder to what degree I’ve been shadowbanned. I routinely see my Twitter/X follower count drop and then come back up, without any new followers being announced to me. Hmmm…”

It isn’t so much about “follower count”, really. It’s much more that your reach is artificially suppressed on all “algorithmic” platforms. Yet fret not, for you are in very good company: they have been putting their thumb on the scale for quite some time.

P.S. Don’t use a public tool to check whether you are “deboosted” or the like. They don’t work.

By: Isegoria

Isegoria — Tue, 23 Jan 2024 01:19:10 +0000

Thanks, Phileas. I hope you keep enjoying it — and maybe get a bit of edification, too.

By: Isegoria

Isegoria — Tue, 23 Jan 2024 01:12:30 +0000

VXXC, I can remember when Moldbug hijacked my brain. Abu Muqawama? Now that’s a name I’ve not heard in a long time.

By: Isegoria

Isegoria — Tue, 23 Jan 2024 01:09:48 +0000

Mike, I’m delighted that you appreciate my Princess Bride-like philosophy of providing just the good parts.

By: Isegoria

Isegoria — Tue, 23 Jan 2024 01:07:21 +0000

Bruce, if Pournelle said I was smart and interesting, I missed it! (Don’t fact-check this too carefully…)

By: Isegoria

Isegoria — Tue, 23 Jan 2024 01:06:12 +0000

That Robert Conquest’s Three Laws of Politics post is some popular, evergreen content. I’m glad it led you here, David. And I’m pleased you appreciate my taste in content.

By: Isegoria

Isegoria — Tue, 23 Jan 2024 01:04:15 +0000

Jim, I do wonder to what degree I’ve been shadowbanned. I routinely see my Twitter/X follower count drop and then come back up, without any new followers being announced to me. Hmmm…

By: Isegoria

Isegoria — Tue, 23 Jan 2024 01:02:54 +0000

Felix, I can access older content from the dashboard; it’s just not propagating to the public site properly.

By: Isegoria

Isegoria — Tue, 23 Jan 2024 01:01:26 +0000

Thank you, Gaikokumaniakku. I try to edutain.

By: Phileas Frogg

Phileas Frogg — Mon, 22 Jan 2024 17:05:33 +0000

I’ve been a consistent visitor since about 2013 while in the midst of a political/religious epiphany from which I have yet to recover. I still regularly check out Jim, Social Pathologist, William Briggs, and Vox Day, but so many of the wonderful blogs from that era are defunct, banned, or dead.

Your consistence and presence with this blog has been not only enjoyable, but edifying. Congrats.