Rik

Well, if they launch. I will certainly block then from interacting with the content of my instances’ users.

What a journalistical mistake, you can’t directly compare a group of countries with a single country. In this case fallen behind means in money. Which is quite a bad assumption.

Is this the federation killer?

The top three instances a currently overcrowded. I recommend checking out a smaller instance (for example https://laguna.chat).

Smaller instances are still able to access to same content. But it is just a different server that processes the content.