diego on Nostr: X limits the reach of posts with links pretty severely on the 'for you' timeline, ...

X limits the reach of posts with links pretty severely on the 'for you' timeline, which is what most people scroll on. The code is open source and you can see the demotion values for posts with urls. They want you to pay to show links.

https://github.com/twitter/the-algorithm/blob/main/src/thrift/com/twitter/search/common/ranking/ranking.thrift