Unironically, I feel like this is the way to go with the fediverse. It takes the best parts of the old internet’s forums and the best part of the new internet. I hope more communities go this way instead of just being created on lemmy.ml or lemmy.world.
It also relies on the infrastructure and federation system to work well. I’m hopefully that it will, but there is still a huge amount of work required to improve user experience and moderation tools.