So the thing is, they don’t want lemmy.ml to be the main instance. They just want it to be their insurance amongst many others where their politics has some influence while the other instances can have their own politics.
Additionally, as whole communities can be blocked rather than whole instances, I think, it stands to reason that blocking whole instances should be rate thing.
Yep. It’s been on the radar for a while, the film didn’t pull it out of nowhere. Though I think back in the day it was always thought of as a fairly unlikely scenario. But that was some 20 years ago. A lot has sadly not changed at all since then.