What’s the X-plantation?

Algorithms are funny things.

Or, someone with a big presence elsewhere linked to a post I made on X. Or bots do funny things.

First I posted this, an addition to a long, ongoing thread I have documenting bad marriages, most of them with dead bedrooms.

As I do from time to time, I then quote-posted my own reply post to draw attention to the thread, since replies don’t usually have the same visibility as a quote post.

For some reason, they took off.

The reply post got more hits - over 300k so far - than the quote post, which itself has over 100k so far.

So, if it is a link, from a forum or another social media platform or whatever, they more likely linked to the reply post.

And thankfully, people did scroll back in the thread as the hits on previous reply posts jumped up somewhat.

I have posts/completed threads I’d consider way more interesting than those posts, and I’ve had a few posts get tens of thousands of views, but this instance is by far the best reaction I’ve had, with so many hits so quickly.

I don’t monetize any of it, mind you. I’m just there to spread the word, and as self-therapy, just like I don’t monetize this blog in any way.

A positive side effect of my presence on X is that I know I’ve gotten people who’d otherwise never interact to at least have some interaction, and sometimes, even dialogue, and I think that’s healthy for society. That’s because I’ve engaged in thoughtful interactions with people of very different subcultures from each other.