There is no need for them to be in the same place, if the different places where they can talk with each other. So like you, I am also expecting people start looking into the the fediverse, disperse around a bit and reconnect. Instead of one global village, we need a globe of diverse villages.

With that said, I opened up https://communick.news on the weekend to try out Lemmy and I wouldn't mind having a few hundred of you there to help me bootstrap it.