This kills Lemmy, I guess? It's not practical for the second and third largest instances to defederate - it just creates two separate networks depending on which side people pick.
It was nice while it lasted, but I can't see Lemmy surviving this.
@DavidGA You had me going there. Logged in and saw this comment. Checked the website and it was only beehaw. Thought lemmy.world was defederating