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+## tl;dr
+
+The huge influx of people from the #twittermigration did not go well for our
+fluffy spiky debate project at the #OMN.
+About 80% of the sign-up are dormant. 90% of those left are off-topic for a
+grassroots, direct action instance.
+
+Our #modteam are going to spend a few weeks talking to active people on the
+instance, asking off-topic accounts to move to other instances
+(see [the-federation)](https://the-federation.info/mastodon))
+- there are over 4000, covering every different subject to choose from.
+We will also ask some accounts to move to our other instance at
+[https://campaign.openworlds.info](https://campaign.openworlds.info) if it's a
+better fit for them. A few of you have already been asked to move here, think
+only one has made the effort so far.
+
+For those that move, we recommend instances that have a maximum of a few hundred
+to a thousand members, so you can help build a functional local community.
+Don't forget, the fediverse is flexible - small instances still give you full
+access to all other instances (via the global timeline), unless the instance
+actively chooses to isolate others or themselves.
+
+Mastodon itself facilitates moving between instances:
+[https://docs.joinmastodon.org/user/moving/#migration](https://docs.joinmastodon.org/user/moving/#migration)
+
+If there are techies among you, who are on-topic and are able to setup and/or
+host an instance yourselves, reach out to us and we will advise or help however
+we can.
+
+Reach out to #modteam if you have any questions.
+
+### Warning
+
+If nothing changes in a few weeks we will have to remove a few thousand accounts
+that are dormant and/or off-topic.
+If you have an opinion on this, please tell us what you think we should do.
+
+
+## A deeper look
+
+Activism and Campaign were set up to bridge the "fluffy" and "spiky" sides of a
+strong social challenge community which is generally referred to as "activists".
+
+A core problem grew from this divide; there is too much in-fighting which
+prevents both aspects of the larger community from progressing in their positive
+efforts.
+We believe that by providing separate spaces for both forms of discourse and
+behaviour, they can more easily thrive, focussing their energy where it's needed
+and actually getting shit done.
+By having both as sister instances within the fediverse, they remain able to
+communicate with each other, but hopefully in such a way as to lessen or ideally
+prevent the debilitating in-fighting.
+Campaign represents the "fluffy" side and is suited toward NGO's, ...
+Activism represents the "spiky" side and is more for the protest camp, direct
+action crew, the people in these videos [http://visionon.tv](http://visionon.tv).
+
+Our intentions have always been to run small subject-specific instances - we are
+not a more general instance like mastodon.social.
+We aim to build strong and focussed communities of 500-800 active people, so
+stay if you would like to be a part of this.
+Ideally, the growth period would be a time to discuss how to further add more
+instances to scale horizontally.
+
+Over recent years, the line has been thoroughly blurred between campaigns and
+direct action.
+When we say "spiky", the closest example we have in the present day (western
+world) is XR, or at least groups within it.