It probably wasn’t legal before either, but this clarifies the law by making it expressly illegal. Without it prosecutors woud obviously make the case that it was illegal, and someone would try and counter that since they were deepfakes that it didn’t count. Hopefully such a defense wouldn’t succeed but this law should preclude someone from even trying it.

Would that mean that when an instance goes up in smoke that would be sublemation?

It’s really just about finding the UI you’re happy with. Additionally if you want to exist on multiple instances an app would give you a consistent UI since instance admins can make certain UI changes you may or may not like.

Just lucky