I also predict that their comms will die out in a few weeks, unless they federate again.

Still, interesting challenge to the whole federation concept, if it’s even possible for you to shape/customize a community of people, if you have to let anyone in from anywhere.

When I was registering to lemmy, BH was already big, I read their rules/concept and was thinking how would that even work (e.g. no downvotes) with federation.

Let’s see where it goes, but I would be happier if we all stay federated and build a big userbase, rather than fragmenting into small silos, and having 5 different versions of a topic-based community with a few K users each.