@AlliFlowers

It does matter. The life cycle of instances is shorter than the ones of known corporate SM sites. Then, you need to move. In contrast to corporate sites, though, you can keep your contacts (almost completely. ) A big plus. Smaller, open instances tend to have a shorter life (debatable.)

Any instance ever blocking Mastodon.social would block a huge part of the #fediverse. Therefore, I would argue that #InstanceBlocking is far less likely to happen.
For instance,...

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