YUP SHIT LIKE THIS, it makes discoverability worse than this here platform that is intentionally made to PREVENT viralization of posts.
It makes reach impossible.
This is such an amazingly bad idea done EXTREMELY poorly
a theory i've seen about it is that, since they made APIs a paid service to an entirely unrealistic level, people who want to gather mass data from Twitter have been scraping the website instead
which puts entire orders of magnitude more stress on the servers
which are already in barely-hanging-together mode after cutting a majority of the staff and the servers themselves
which means they were forced to do something to avoid an actual literal collapse
and the best they could come up with was putting a ridiculously tiny limiter on browsing.
entirely speculation, but damn if it doesn't feel right
