@echo yeah but the people i talk about haven't hopped to any other instance and always have been on smug (or at least the majority of their fedi presence). I've been hoping instances since a couple of years (three times this year already) and it's not like i have problems talking to people later because we all use the same network anyways.
Anyways if they get frustrated by that then yeah, maybe they want to rethink their place on here and go back to the centralized model.