Maybe they found .world libs so annoying, racist and the perfect mix of uneducated/unintelligent and arrogant that they see it as the perfect pro government radicalisation tool.

Geo-blocking Germany?

Things of the fediverse, they need to adjust the Firewall to any instance individually. The people there use anyway an VPN. Meanwhile a lot of chinese people in Mastodon instances without problems.

Is the general consensus that this is a mistake on the part of the government of China?

And thats how work fediverse, yaaay