Literally just made his point. Every single person keeps repeating it’s like email, as if email is a fantastic place to go get your news and interact with others.

But that's not email's use case at all. It's not being compared to email because they serve the same function otherwise there'd be no need for Lemmy. It's being compared as a distributed and open protocol, and where the comparison is important is in adoption, and email proves out that an open distributed system can achieve not only strong, but universal adoption. We pulled it off in the 80s on ridiculously weak hardware and snail pace internet, I'm sure it can be done again.

Email was kinda federated in the start, there were hundreds of email companies. They all got eaten up and now only a few big ones remain.

It's not like e-mail. It already fixes the things you're complaining about, while the things OP was complaining about will be fixed eventually. The point of bringing up e-mail is that a) federation does work and b) that usability is not a hindrance by itself.

Why do you think that? Aphoristic assertions aren't very convincing. Maybe make an argument.