Eugen RochkoI was a bit worried that the Kotaku article made Mastodon sound like an insular closed club, but judging by all the new sign ups there's probably no better way to make people want to sign up than to suggest that something is exclusive...
Sydney “The Word” Falk 
now I'm gonna "invent" a microblogging platform that's "only" open for subscriptions two days a year
call it Solstice even though it's on the equinoxes
account creation charge: five thousand dollars