Twitter/x.com is now forcing you to disable Firefox's Enhance Tracking Protection.
Firefox’s Enhanced Tracking Protection (Strict Mode) is known to cause issues on x.com
There were no "issues"; everything was working completely fine. This is a deliberate decision to force people to turn off tracking protection.
I saw a recommendation to use Firefox's container extension https://support.mozilla.org/en-US/kb/containers, but it's disabled in private browsing windows, and I always use private browsing windows.
because unlike lemmy where its usually about following topics, twitter is about following people, and migration requires said people who theyre following to also migrate
Umm, lemmy is a reddit like fediverse site. Mastodon is closer to what Twitter is. The only difference between the two is that twitter has a ranking algorithm whereas mastodon goes chronologically.
where in the post did i not (indirectly imply it). Thats why the adoption of Lemmy was more logical than the adoption of Mastodon. a Twitter clone requires the people being followed to also move. a reddit clone doesn't, hence why migration is easier here than over at Mastodon. It fundamentally is due to how its used. (topics vs people/orgs)
Until the creators of the content you need switch, it's one of if not the hub where the content is.
This would be easy to "solve" from the reader end if Nitter was still operational, but I haven't heard from the project or from any alternative in ages.
Dunno! I haven't been to Twitter since Elon bought it and activated our scorched-earth protocols. Twitter hasn't been accessible on any device in our network since then.
The project was using a way to bypass requiring a backing account to proxy the requests, but the API update broke that
The instances that chose (and choose) to go the extra mile by creating and maintaining proxy account(s) are the ones still working
If the instance gets too popular the twitter goons quickly figure out what the proxy account is and ban it, though. So it's a constant game of cat and mouse.
Every so often someone posts something on Lemmy or somewhere else which contains a Twitter link that's interesting or relevant, and so there is value in me visiting it. Just because I don't "use" Twitter doesn't mean I don't end up reading a Twitter post every so often, because other people use it.