> not the fact that twitter is hostile to unauthenticated user agents.
Yep, Twitter has had aggressive authentication gating for almost 2yrs now and HN frequently has Twitter links
Am I remembering correctly that when Elon first took over, he took that gate down because of his whole free speech thing. I'm guessing they re-instated it as soon as it hit the bottom line. Makes me wonder if government should still rely on it for comms.
HN often has twitter links when this is the primary source; in that case in comments there are usually links to mirrors or threadreader.
Here twitter is not the main source, there are better ones (both better quality and more user friendly).
I would like a rule to avoid submissions that are login walled unless this is the primary source and an open mirror is available.