i personally don't see that as an issue tbh, they were never really trying to push ml to be the main instance imo, i vividly remember when people were flooding in from r****t and because ml didn't really bother upgrading server hardware it was insanely slow, and so people moved to other new instances like .world instead

and i mean they have and always had a whole section of their docs dedicated to censorship resistance so i really doubt their purpose for ml is to censor people, but just to make a "safe space"/"echo chamber" (call it whatever you want) for tankies