I imagine they are in damage control mode and are hoping to stem the outflow of users’ attention spans to the Lemmyverse while their current actions are the Current Thing.

I reckon they are budgeting for a 1-2 week martial law period to try and stabilise and will probably force open all the closed subs and make use of repost and chatGPT bots to simulate decent engagement, possibly even paying for comments too.

It would also be very interesting if they roll back on their censorship of open discussion of certain topics to attract back previously “resettled” users.

Yep and you’re not subject to the whims of your home instance admins deciding what they will and won’t federate with, and how you must behave across the fediverse.

Is the Boost dev aware of this?