I agree that we are already pretty self-isolated. And I don't think it makes sense to defederate before we actually have a concrete problem. Defederating from other instances not only limits the users on lemmyRS, but will also limit users on other instances to discover and learn about Rust from this instance (which I see as the main downside).

I want to point out that stable in this context doesn't necessarily mean less buggy but means that the system changes less.

If someone is not working on something and have doney spare time (like me). I'm sure it would be greatly appreciated if we used some of that time to improve the Lemmy backend. My plan for the weekend is to go through the repository and get more familiar with the Lemmy code base

Wow looks really awesome, fast and no adds. Thanks