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As someone who went, I'd say most people were there for the same reason as me:

1. When 2 million people on Facebook say they will go to a thing, you know some fraction will actually go.

2. We were hoping it would evolve into something akin to the next burning man.

3. If it sucked you could fall back to spending a week in vegas.

4. Surely of the people that showed up, a high percentage of them would be interesting people.

#1 Around 2000 people showed up

#2 no dice, but the potential was there and it may have happened at 20k people

#3 I did do this, it was fun

#4 definitely was the case, made multiple great friends that weekend




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