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I agree. I must admit my title was a bit clickbaity. Growth - meaning growing in user count - wasn’t my intention. I think it’ll be a result, sure. But I agree with you (and the Lemmy developers) in that growing (above all) isn’t what Lemmy is about. And it’s not healty anyways. And I think I didn’t include any reasoning or suggestions in my text that’d propose doing it.
What we’d need is the communities be at a healty (and useful) engagement level to allow having a conversation in the first place. Well, and I occasionally keep an eye at such metrics, because for example seeing something stagnate or decline could mean there is an issue, somewhere. I think I mentioned that in the post. But it doesn’t necessarily mean we have to push that metric. It’s tackling the underlying issue (if there’s any) that’s the important thing to do (in my opinion).
For binge-watching yes. If I’m in the mood and it’s the one off occasion that I’m re-watching some old episode (or the newest one of the week), then of course not 😅