Oh, yeah, I can see why uniform randomness would be a problem. I thought the criticism was directed at “Just sort people into a Lemmy server either based off their interests or location”

I was thinking that you do a little questionnaire and it gives you the best matching server.

Do you know why? It sounds to me like a great addition to the fediverse.

Shut down as in someone shut down the website or people telling you that the idea is trash?

Pick the one everyone else is using. Your friend has a Hotmail? You make a Hotmail. Everyone switched to Gmail? You’ll also switch to Gmail. Also for a lot of people, email is just email. They don’t even know that you can choose a different provider.

You can’t log in from your lemmy.world account, but you can interact with it through lemmy.world as if you had an account there.