[CameronNemo]

I wonder how many instances Twitter will be (soft) censoring? New instances can pop up at any moment, does Twitter plan to deplatform all of them, just ones that host objectionable content, or just those that are big enough to notice? This is a game of whack a mole. Good luck swinging that heavy ban hammer, Elon.

[jakelazaroff]

It should be relatively easy to detect — Twitter can simply check whether a domain implements ActivityPub when a user tries to submit a link.

[CameronNemo]

Wow that would be a scorched earth policy, would it not? You would then be deplatforming video and image hosting sites, discussion forums, and blogs. Including people.kernel.org, the Linux kernel developer blogging platform.

[jakelazaroff]

Sure. I don’t know the ActivityPub spec; maybe there’s some way to disambiguate further. But I think Elon would be fine with deplatforming anyone for whom he could get away with it.

[EGreg]

Why would you think that? His whole shtick was to NOT do that