Are that many places actually defederating? There was talk on the server i came from of defederating but they're still there.
I feel it's silly to dismiss the idea that we're not already a test bed for psyops. If i had to hazard a guess, getting an instance defedded would be plan a to limit wrong-think in the fediverse. Besides tactics like forum sliding they can isolate a whole group by causing issues that other instances will want to defederate/inoculate themselves from? Too easy not to have that in your toolbox
Feels like one of the fediverses greatest strengths can be made a liability, at least for class consciousness, easily. That's why I'm planning on having a bunch of accounts across instances that i comment from on the regular so i don't have a home instance.
But i don't care, not really. Who cares if our words don't reach when truth is on our side? The truth can't be hidden from everyone forever, and will come to everyone's eyes another way.