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"Mastodon will never take off"
*looks at the user stats*
[twice the population of my local city]
welp
I guess my local city won't ever take off either
@sargoth Your local city would have to be very aerodynamic... and very dense, I think...
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Difficult, but possible.
@NthTensor I can see the municipal council meeting:
"Well, we needed more room to expand, so we blasted off into space and became the first human colony in orbit"
@sargoth @NthTensor "If you want this to be New York you'll need brands to advertise to pay for housing for 9mil people. Otherwise you all might as well give up."
I thought about it more.
New York: 8.406 million users
twitter: 313 million users
New York is a complete and utter failure.
@paulsheprow @sargoth I heard NY started charging ridiculous prices.
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Come on now... a paid service will never get off the ground. I would not be surprised it people started useing other microbologing platforms instead of the entire city of New York soon.
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New York is a failure as a startup.