I've wished people stopped posting links to twitter the moment twitter started requiring people to create/log into an account in order to view anything. I think the political concerns are every bit as valid as concerns over accessibility and privacy, but ultimately there are a lot of good reasons to avoid linking to twitter.

Triggered much? I’m expressing my free speech by refusing to use his neo nazi website and encouraging others to avoid it too. Why do I have to tolerate him?

In all seriousness, drawing a line once we reach Nazis is absolutely fair. That is not something to tolerate.

The links appear to be broken today.

Perhaps X links are ephemeral?

There are some things that you should not be tolerated. Greedy, manipulative, lying bullies are one of those things.

Meanwhile supporting X and its owner is rhetoric that actually deserves to be kept not even to Reddit but to 4chan/b https://deadline.com/2025/07/elon-musks-ai-chatbot-grok-prai...

It's not virtue signalling: it's a concrete action. Refusing traffic from an audience like Hacker News is meaningful. Any boycott is meaningful.

It is also the opposite of silence. Someone speaking up and saying, 'This is not okay and we should not do it', as the OP did, is important.

Refusing to use a platform is literally the opposite of virtue signaling