A quick glance at the post gave me the impression lots of people from that instance are against the change. I’d wait and see how things settle before defederating. Defederating is detrimental to lemmy/kbin growth, it should be a last resort approach.
I had the fat one and loved the bumps, made it so comfortable I couldn’t touch my friends’ slim. Miss it a lot but last time I tried it had a terrible stick drift. Wonder if they’re still available somewhere