These aren’t actual “splinters” though. These are just pissing matches between platforms. The idea of disconnecting a range of users from the internet (such as a country geo blocking another country) is quite a bit different, like if reddit was suddenly no longer available to lemmy users and vice versa.

I for one hope for the balkanization of the internet because while it will be extremely disruptive and kind of a nightmare it will potentially facilitate and popularize a replacement like ipfs, yggdrasil, or more federation to displace this corpo nightmare we’ve found ourselves in