So, am I mourning the 1500 followers I had on X/Twitter?
Nope.

Probably only 'spoke' to 1% regularly. Nice to have a smaller number of higher-quality contacts now. As Aristotle once said:

'Followers are vanity; likes, replies and reposts are sanity'.

(In his 'Nicomachean Ethics', I believe.)

Great Greeks You've Never Heard Of #1: Pittacus, one of the 'Seven Sages of Greece'. Ruled Mytilene on Lesbos for 10 years, c.600 BC. Gave up power voluntarily. Good effort! Issued fair & just laws - in poetry! Imagine that today: 'There was a PM called Keir, who had a great fiscal idea..." #History