Nick Gully is a user on octodon.social. You can follow them or interact with them if you have an account anywhere in the fediverse.
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According to the laws of orbital mechanics, Mastodon can't succeed. We already have a double-star system of Facebook and Twitter, the major and minor component, respectively. Then again, maybe Twitter has acted stupidly enough for long enough that there's a real chance for this to succeed.
