It’s really, really sad that this sort of stuff doesn’t get picked up and funded for the greater good. Stuff like the NLnet Foundation exists, which has helped fund some pretty major projects (including the development of Lemmy), but something this critical I feel should be consistently funded by even larger entities in order to keep things working right.
It also means that after a while people figure out the pattern of “new show, cancelled, new show, cancelled, repeat” and stop caring about originals. Like Netflix.