If I had to bet, TKO is playing both sides and will ultimately commit to whatever the numbers point to. Given the amount of shit that happened in January, there’s a ton of time until WM. When push comes to shove, I’m sure we will get new reports that X or Y was “the plan from the beginning.”
I’ve only ever interacted through the instance through Lemmy, which did cause some issues early on, but I haven’t noticed anything lately. I’ll follow the new .zip one, that’s what my vote would be.