A properly written softfork only activates with say 90% consensus by a specific block height. If it doesn't reach 90% then nothing happens, nothing to see here, move along.

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And also only the so called economic nodes actually have any power over the protocol. So if they spin up a bunch of sybils and make it look like they have consensus but the economic nodes were never onboard it's still a contentious chain split.