Since you’ve linked to my post, maybe you lemmitors can help answer one of the questions posed in it:

Can I get a quick rundown on what Maduro has done to be labelled as a “brutal dictator” by the liberal media?

It is. He/we don’t support your politics, but we support your right to congregate and use the software.

Cowbee wasn’t saying that it’s bad to make your own space, per se; he was saying that communities of like-minded people are naturally going to develop on the Fediverse because of its decentralized nature. No Hexbear would deny that we created the site for ourselves.