I know it is not favored in the indie microblogging community generally, for no shortage of reasons we don’t have to go into, but at the end of the day there’s a real cold start problem for me (and maybe others who have been on there since ~2007 or so). Basically, I’m basically a nobody and started using that site so long ago that it’s still the one place the limited set of techies/diehards I know from school & much of my professional career tend to remain for seeing things that I post.
As much as I’d like to do (and try to dip into) alternatives that are better stewards online than X has become, I’m basically starting from scratch with objectively not a large amount of people who do/would read me anyway. And I find alternative networks are much harder to really use unless you were already one of the high profile accounts that migrated all-in (like much of the Apple community manages to succeed on Mastodon).
So I’m always finding myself in the situation of “do I post to my Micro.blog, or do I just keep doing things on X where someone I know might actually see it” given the extra steps involved. It’s a super hard muscle memory to break and ultimately why I’ve been hesitant to jump from the “One” plan I’ve been testing the waters with to the Standard plan (unless I am over-estimating the complexity of the feature here I guess but I can’t really see how it works).
TL,DR: I feel like even if I got charged additional per post like the latest API changes seem to allow for it to be more behaviorally similar to the other peer networks, I would upgrade and take the surcharge option just so I could really have a one-stop place to post from with a hope what I write would get seen and the people I want would eventually find me on RSS or other networks instead. The last updates I can really find talking about posting to twitter seem to be from ~2022/3 or so when the first ecosystem shock hit.
Maybe I’m in the minority here in wishing/caring that it were automatic, but it really is something I wrestle with every time I think about posting so figured I would make a note of the dilemma I find myself in at least.