Thank you for asking and a thoughtful response.

I'm (hopefully obviously) not opposed to supporting lemmy.world or the devs. I don't expect free stuff.

I have run into more than a couple people who have needed to opine and troll because they have strong feeling about people enjoying Sync.

The lemmyverse has at least one starting point and maybe I'm still learning. What I see is a place begun in a somewhat communist, left leaning, pro-FOSS standpoint. I suspect that demographic is inclined to thought processes I can't grok.

I understand class resentment (I do; I'm not wealthy (at all)). I understand fatigue with people geeking out over an app that underwhelms a person of other tastes (or means).

That said, I see your distinction. One of the virtues of lemmy is that it's a loose federation. But people from a variety of servers have argued in poor faith (or just not seen what they're doing).

I expect disagreement. It's part of why I'm here: to hear well reasoned counter points and to learn. But it's difficult to say lemmy.world has been happy about the newcomers. That I've seen anyhow.

If making the point that allies are being alienated in ways that matter to us all, helps make a point that we could be friends, then I'll make that point.

I did end my subscribed support that would have outpaced my Sync spend within a year (you can math that). Lemmy, right now, has an unwelcoming vibe that's not even a little background. It is foreground. And problematic if this experiment is going to work.