Looks like my first time hearing about those is from them being removed

The issue is... I think it's gonna be hard to find a non-Nestle candy.

See this post. The work is sponsored by the NLnet Foundation

Lemmy core devs are actually employed full time to work on lemmy.

It'd be great to support identity based on a key hash, so that it's completely decoupled from any instances. Maybe some time in the future.