I replied to the first one I saw because I prefer that to the endless subposting that happens here but then I saw several more "why does cohost have to cater to everyone anyway" posts after that so I'm just gonna say it's because this isn't a hobbyist project, this isn't someone's RPGmaker forum 20 years ago that they run from spare change and some donations, this is a company that has to pay the salaries of four people, and those salaries aren't exactly low. The current userbase doesn't sustain those salaries, not even vaguely close to even seeing those salaries in the distance. You either expand to larger audiences, change your business plan entirely, or die. Niche spaces exist because they're done without pay. It sucks, but it's the reality of it. Almost every niche community you remember from the earlier internet was being run by some person who wanted to pay for it to happen and wanted to run it for free. At best they might get members to donate a few bucks. But basically nobody was pulling a salary from running a social site. And honestly nobody makes the money to do so NOW either, even the huge social media sites were just burning through VC for a decade or so. Twitter, Tumblr, Reddit, they're all money losers. So this is how it is. You run a community for free because you want to do it, or you take VC to keep it going. The old Internet was run on the backs of volunteers, and that's just the unfortunate truth of it. Money is the biggest factor in all of this. It actually is important that cohost appeal to a wider audience, because its current audience can't support it financially, and provably has not done so.