They didn’t, and for attention.

I don’t really need this, I’ve already swapped all my apps and home page to lemmy, but seriously, I had to applaud the name. lemmyreddirectyou… 10/10.

As far as I know, no. Hello from someone who was trying to click a different link and this one popped up. I do know they’re working on it on github.

The part that confused and pushed me away is the fact that depending on which email server you sign up for, you may not be able to send or receive an email to a server that may or may not already exist. If the person/group that runs the instance you signed up for defederates something, you’re out of luck if you wanted to use that instance without making a dedicated account over there. It also doesn’t help that the federation of different instances isn’t automatic or retroactive. Someone on your instance has to subscribe to something on another instance for the federation to start, and it only starts pulling content from that point forward. If you want to see older content you have to go to that instance at a minimum, and maybe sign up for that instance depending on what it is. Those are the biggest factors against the Fediverse, in my opinion.