Let me generalize this thread because it was archetypical.

#1: Much used, leading service went down the enshittification route. If we did this extremely convoluted geeky hack everything would be back to normal (it wouldn't).

#2: Let's use another service.

#3 and on: yes, here are other services which no one aside from statistical error uses.

Sigh.

Remember when people suggested to use Lemmy instead of Reddit?

You might ask, what's the point of this comment. Well, it's to get people to read https://pluralistic.net/ more and for the geeks to start unionizing before it's too late (it already is).