It’s developers working on their time to build an app they want. You don’t have the right to demand they do things your way.

Have you considered hosting your own instance instead? Seems like that would solve the issue.

If you can, I’d go with having your own instance at your own domain.

Here’s an example of how to build it from scratch. https://lemmy.grouchysysadmin.com/comment/7413

Just set ‘Only Admins can create Communities’ in your instance. Then people can sign up, comment, and participate, but can’t create communities.

You’d still need to moderate comments, and posts made from your instance though.

Sure. Just create a server and subscribe to communities. Then disable public registration. Anybody can read the content on your instance. So far as I know, you can read the content on any public instance without an account.

Or am I not understanding your question?

It’s good to be popular. Congratulations on the growth!