Lemme cap this: showing a defensive (or counteroffensive) posture against people who sport passive support for genocide "costs users"... and not wanting those users is somehow bad?

Sounds quite simple math to me: while we could mayhap be advertising for more users, we don't need to cater to everyone.

You still seem to think this is about me, and it is not.

The longest paragraph in your comment literally starts with "I, personally".

Scattered around that are your opinions about why Lemmy isn't bigger, that you're insisting this thread was created to solicit.

But the moment someone does the same thing, in the same thread, but disagreeing with you about the reasons? "This thread isn't about that".

We can play the game if you want though. Was reddits growth -- literally the measuring stick in the discussion -- thanks to it peppering the centre right with gentle kisses every time they blessed the site with a visit?

Nope. It was about as left-wing as Lemmy and if you said something that was demonstrably bullshit, 8 different people would tell you to fuck off.

The reality is that it became a centralised location for memes and pornography.

Whatever "growth" it saw by giving brave little conservatives a place to call their own had to be repeatedly undone because they just couldn't stop using slurs, brigading threads and advocating terrorism.

So they moved to Voat instead, instantly turning it into a cesspit of mask off neonazim and "not technically child pornography but we're going to use it as child pornography anyway".

How did that "growth" work out for them? Oh right, terminally.

It literally does. I support the fediverse and thus want it to grow. If you need a place just for you, you can find one that aligns with you or create your own.

Yet your solution wasn't "someone should make a center-right server that is more tolerant to our completely reasonable views and harmless slurs", it was "all these perverts and nerds should be nicer to us".

You know, that exact thing I mentioned. You've just made it clearer that your take genuinely is "this platform is overrun by leftists who need to be nicer to us poor oppressed conservatives and if they're don't like it, they can create their own space just for themselves".

I assume the next step is that you join that new instance, complain it's full of leftists and insist they go somewhere else.