I'm skeptical of their intentions. If we do federate I think we should be ready to defederate if the need arises. I also think Lemmy servers should try to come together and agree what the "need to defederate" from them would look like so everyone can defederate together. It is likely some servers will defederate from the start and that's fine, I'm not totally convinced that's not the best course personally, my mind isn't fully made yet.