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Mark me down as a solid no. This is up to communities, it shouldn't have anything to do with the instance.
I don't use it, nor do I follow links there because they won't work anyway. But just because I don't see value in something doesn't mean a community here won't.
This is my opinion, too.
Yeah. I'd encourage communities to do it, but not the instance itself.
In particular, there may be a community dedicated to pointing out the crazy shit Elon says, or laughing at various right-wing bootlickers. Those communities can't really exist without linking to, or at least sharing images from Twitter. I see the value in those existing, even if they're not somewhere I'd want to spend a lot of my time. Occasionally something is so hilarious or important that it might break through, and it couldn't if those communities were effectively banned.
OTOH if various politics, football, gaming, etc. communities want to ban content from Twitter, I'd definitely encourage that. Even if it means that someone has to look a little harder for an alternate source for something they saw on Twitter, it's worth it because it shows Twitter isn't essential and gets people to move away.
I don't really agree with the last one, and I wouldn't implement it as a mod because I honestly don't care that much. But a community should make those decisions, not an instance, provided they ensure the content fits with the other instance rules (no porn, etc).