Of course it will, which is why its so important we find a solution before it gets worse.
@freemo
To be fair, these look like older but smaller instances that are very cliquish in nature, as opposed to the instances that are actually seeing growth, and most people don't act in this petty a manner, and wouldn't do so under pretty much any reasonable circumstances.
I still think the solution is to move beyond the current system of people being in positions of influence over the current Fediverse via expanding the latter in ways outside of the control of people like this. While this might happen naturally, working to make it happen sooner isn't a bad idea.
@rgs
@mathlover @freemo My (no-longer-)secret fear is that this sort of nonsense will be weaponized, again and again, to ostracize one instance after another