I kinda feel like fears about fedi getting Eternal September'd are kind of overblown. fedi is really not a distinct community that could be ruined by an influx of new users, it's a loose network of different communities where the people you choose to interact with it literally codified in the form of what gets federated to your server. if you don't like the normies, you can just choose to not interact with them and not let them onto your instance. in extreme cases you can fediblock as well
I maintain that having a more diverse group of people on fedi other than fossbros, chuds, and anti-chuds would ultimately be a good thing
Thing that bugged me about Don't Look Up is that they didn't restart the calculation in the beginning six times over and instead just accepted it without debugging
Now I want a cut where they realize around 2/3 into the movie they made a mistake calculating and that it's going to miss
Remember, people are more willing to bring their whole selves to Mastodon.
For example, you may have initially started following someone for their weird bullshit, but don't be surprised that they also choose to share their much weirder bullshit too.