Hmm — Don’t I need an ‘X’ account to use Elon’s platform ??
Very few of us have physical access to one of those servers.
My understanding is that you don't have to pay for it, unlike Microsoft and their constant desire to make you rent their operating system.
Musk's problem is that Twitter/X has too many bots. By making you register, he's curtailing bot activity, because it's a lot harder for bots to feed crap into the system when they have to register individual accounts.
He's not trying to force you to pay him the way Microsoft is, he's trying to keep out the vast hordes of fake accounts that existed on the Twitter platform before he bought it.
“Don’t I need an ‘X’ account to use Elon’s platform ??”
X is not a personal operating system. X is not a required default concept that comes with almost all computers available whether you want it or not. X does not perpetually own YOUR computer and force you to comply to THEIR wishes and parameters.