Sure, normies are what keeps social media going. They're also why anyone with two neurons to rub together fucking hates social media, because normies turn them into... well just go look at any social media. Facebook, or le peddit's front page, would be shit even without all the pedo tranny jannies powertripping and calling anyone who isn't one of them a nazi, I mean have you ever been to r/funny, or r/atheism, or literally any facebook page? It's not just the internet janitors that make these subs horrendous, most of the blame is solely on the users themselves.

If I wanted to share a forum with my grandma, I'd be on Facebook. I suggest you do exactly that if that's what you're looking for.

In the meantime, there's a certain discussion board about agriculture in New Zealand which is booming in both user count and amount of content, much of it excellent quality, without cucking to any corporations. The forum and its users are completely unrepentant and the owner has zero chance of making it "the next big thing" and selling it to a corporation, because no investor would ever touch it due to its reputation - and it's much better than any mainstream website, precisely because of this. Anyone new either understands what the community is about and fits in, or gets chased out and possibly doxed. It's the anti-normie forum and it's great.

There are more, lesser known ones like that. What they all have in common is that they don't apologize, they don't grovel, and the people running them aren't interested in making a ton of money by normiefying them.

This isn't something unique to internet forums and social networks, either. Remember the endless amazing tiny game studios that just did their thing and made games they wanted to make, and they were amazing? Remember when they got bought by megacorps and turned into shit? Remember when every PC gamer waited with bated breath for the next Blizzard game?

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