Yeah the links are useless now. Elon’s changes briefly made them (a lot) better than before, then totally ruined them (for logged-out users). It’s far worse even than Instagram, which has the second-worst following-a-link-as-a-non-user experience I can think of.

We just share screenshots in my friend group. Used to share links. It may as well not be on the Web at all anymore.

[edit] and also it’s now actually broken, but it was so close to broken before that I think they should have been blocked here, and most places, months ago.