Ok fair point that their evaluations and conclusions could all still be independent, but simply triggered by the twitter campaign.
But from all that's been written on the topic, there's been very few concrete examples put forward of dangerous content on KF. It seems to me more likely that businesses have simply seen that the twitter campaign reached a critical mass and made the simple decision to cut them off to reduce reputation risk without doing much of an investigation themselves.
There's definitely going to be a Streisand effect from all this. I hadn't heard about KF until a couple months ago too when an Asahi developer I follow was complaining about them on twitter. Now just about the entire tech community knows of them.
I have zero interest in participating with their content, but sent KF a crypto donation to help support forums with less censorship. I'm sure they'll be getting a nice bump in funding from all this.
I don't think it's fair to say that. Individual businesses aren't evaluating KF themselves and independently coming to the same conclusion. Otherwise, it would be highly coincidental that they all randomly reached this conclusion within a few days of each other, when there hasn't been any significant recent shift in content on KF.
Spam that could overload a system would need to handled higher in the tech stack. But some content moderation could at the level of the individual user, who could filter what he wants to see based on his own preferences.
But from all that's been written on the topic, there's been very few concrete examples put forward of dangerous content on KF. It seems to me more likely that businesses have simply seen that the twitter campaign reached a critical mass and made the simple decision to cut them off to reduce reputation risk without doing much of an investigation themselves.