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> Why “stop linking to X”?

As someone without a Twitter/X account, their links are bad. I can only see the first post of a chain, can't see replies, etc. Mastodon is better in that regard.

This has nothing to do with the content of the platform, Musk, etc, btw. It's just the fact that now it's a bit hostile for logged out users/people without accounts. It used to be fine, but now it hides content, which is bad for me.

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Yep, exactly. Twitter makes no sense at all from the perspective of a non-user. Posts are all over the place, no coherent order.

It only motivates me to avoid the platform.

> It used to be fine

It was always awful, in my opinion. Twitter does a good job at letting people publish "sound bytes"; little bits of what's on their mind. Past that (into longer form and discussion) it has never been good.

Right, it was never a good platform for longer posts, but before at least you could try to follow the different posts. Now, public links only show one post and that's it.

As someone without account, I was able to read post and comments before. Now I can't even read the post sometimes not talking about comments.

It shows you the linked post and its content just fine. If you want to engage in the conversation, you should probably just go through the account creation process which takes anywhere from 10 seconds to a minute.

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