Oh, I'm with you, and I don't need or want the endless growth thing. I was on Reddit a long time, and saw the good and bad of the huge user base.

But it's kind of like when you have a favorite neighborhood restaurant: you don't want it to get so successful that it's always crowded and you can't get a table, but you also want it to do well enough that it stays in business. If the Lemmy use base declines too much, there won't be a reason for people to come here and we'll lose our little corner of the Internet.