The Mastodon community needs to decide if we want more people or if we want to keep the same culture, because we can't have both.

Culture is people. More people means more culture. And that culture is going to be different than what was before it, because the people are going to be different than the people who came before them.

Integration goes both ways. It blends. Every culture learns, adapts and ultimately adopts the nice things about the other cultures.