It seems like they’re trying to appeal to admin/users who despise where the developers of Lemmy come from and make them move away from Lemmy to their codebase.
Their “United States of Amewrica” on their github seems all too intentional.
But options are always good because the fediverse is all about options. If Lemmy gets too controversial, instance admins can hopefully move over to sublinks without losing functionality.
I hope you don’t mind some questions.
I am curious about selfhosting an instance for a community but am afraid federation will consume too much time/resource/money for a side project.