They also announced it on their Mastodon, I guess OP didn’t realize they had one.

It makes sense for fediverse instances to have very low SEO (search engine ranking) as the content is split up across many different websites and domains.

Sadly this is very common for small game developers (and even large ones) to move entirely to Discord to avoid paying or managing a dedicated forum

As someone who runs multiple email servers, this is exactly how it works.

Some email providers will randomly or purposely block emails I sent to them. I get arbitrary blocks or dropped emails on sent emails.