Ben Royce 🇺🇦<p><span class="h-card" translate="no"><a href="https://mastodon.social/@themizzi" class="u-url mention" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">@<span>themizzi</span></a></span> <span class="h-card" translate="no"><a href="https://mas.to/@kissane" class="u-url mention" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">@<span>kissane</span></a></span> </p><p>they don't want "the normies"</p><p>they fear an <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/eternalseptember" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>eternalseptember</span></a> </p><p>thing is, since this is federation, anyone worried about that can keep their niche communities separate and never encounter "the normies"</p><p>and, like erin said, we want "the normies" here</p><p>otherwise they get mindwiped by plutocrat agendas on centralized <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/socialmedia" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>socialmedia</span></a></p><p>to do that we have to make the process of getting into the <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/fediverse" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>fediverse</span></a> dead simple</p><p>dead. simple.</p><p>even picking a server is a step too high for many</p>