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That sounds toxic af.
I mean, groups glomming up to push particular ideas or concerns are probably part and parcel of having a federated network with people independently operating servers. Various people are going to have various views on content. Some Usenet servers wouldn't forward content of particular types and all that.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/There_Is_No_Cabal
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Backbone_cabal
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Usenet_Death_Penalty
Regardless of one's position on whether this particular case is warranted -- I certainly am not sure that it is -- my guess is that at some point, one is likely going to have people trying to form groups of instance operators to put pressure on other instance operators. Has happened before, probably will continue to do so.
That's just organization of independent actors wishing to push a message together. In a way, it is beautiful. I wish it wouldn't be message to defend and block and close out, but that's the current realities and worries of the Fedi.