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It's not totally insane reasoning but, like, people can just downvote links to Twitter if they want to, and/or use an extension to automatically redirect to a Nitter instance. The only people actually affected by censoring Twitter community-wide is those who would want to look at the context.
Didn't nitter shut down like 2 years ago or something
It very nearly did, but there's, like, 2 working instances with heavy ratelimits.
Was it as long ago as that? xcancel.com still works, if you can't live without your fix of Baalbuddy.
I stopped using twitter way longer than that, tbh I'm basically gone from most social media
Twitter used to be more interesting and I talked with a lot of people. Nowadays it's pretty devoid