Lauren WeinsteinNow comes the interesting part. In the face of Meta's Threads, does Musk change his behavior with #Twitter -- pricing, verifications, moderation, etc. in any ways?
Nour Agha 
@lauren Only thing that will revive his platform and put it on the competitive stage is ActivityPub or AT protocol. Otherwise it's dead in the water, especially once Threads launches AP.
@Nour Or governments cracking down on Meta for privacy issues. And that could easily happen.
@lauren I'd hope so, but they're going to dodge a lot of scrutiny once they federate, pointing to the ability and freedom of users to migrate elsewhere while benefiting from a firehose of content from federated servers without having to deal with the legal responsibilities of hosting all of that data.
Mirishuli@MiriShuli @Nour Regulation *is* coming. There are already a variety of fully bipartisan "Big Tech Hate" bills. The only question is how SCOTUS will deal with various of them, which is hard to predict.
@Nour @lauren This court has already proven it’s bought and paid for by the likes of Harlan Crow and the racists. Feinstein and Grassley haven’t a clue what kind of legislation needs to be written and whatever is written will be rendered useless. So the fact that it *is* coming is a ruse. Sorry, the last 7 yrs has left me without any hope.
kkeller@Nour @lauren if Musk won't let people use his API, he definitely won't let Twitter do ActivityPub.
But even if he did, I wouldn't be surprised if many existing ActivityPub instances preemptively blocked Twitter's instances. People are already talking about doing so for Threads, which is just "normal" level malicious. Musk's Twitter is so much more genuinely evil.