@J12t I mean, there's that implication, but that can never be precise enough to mean much, I'd guess.

I was more thinking about it as a separate "fediverse".

A common defence against the possibility of things going wrong with meta is that we can always start again with our open protocols and software.

In a way, these meta-blocking instances could be said to also be starting again, going back to 2017 mastodon with their own network and are maybe rather happy with that.