I've emailed HN's mods requesting Twitter/X links be site-banned as hard-paywalled, given that Nitter and XCancel had also just received C&Ds (<https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49437283>).
It can still by bypassed with working nitter instances. Nitter doesn't have to be legal. Archive.today certainly isn't.
I too dislike logging into Twitter/X, but that's not a paywall, the accounts are still free, no?
Is anything really "free"?
Not good enough. Creating an account still leads to the "Your account was suspended for reasons, now you gotta dox yourself" dance. See previous discussion: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49442907