Post.fm - Email Reinvented

I recently read on Quora that reinventing email or making email a thing of the past is among the startup ideas that persistently fail.

"The first truly social email service." Is email something social? I'm not sure of that.

And here we don't even know what the service is. Will I get an email address? Will it be compatible with the normal email? Is it another Facebook Message?

I don't see why people would request an invite and give post.fm their email address if they don't know what to expect.

Even a little description about what the service does, would help tremendously to get my email address.

OP left this comment 321 days ago.

"An open / distributed alternative. Facebook today is like some initial proprietary version of email. Sooner or later, an open standard protocol for "sharing" and "social networking" (EMAIL + FOAF?) will take over. (And it has to be distributed, like email) That's what we're building at the mo :)"

http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=1466023

If I didn't have an email address, and Post.fm claims to re-invent email, and yet Post.fm requires an email address, does my head explode when I try to connect the dots?

At some point obscurity stops being cool. I think I reached this point just before I left high school.

After submitting it says "Like us on Facebook to get priority access". I'm not sure what it is yet :/

Is this a dark pattern emerging?

I don't have an email address and this is not helping