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Bluesky quickly sold out of the T-shirt its CEO wore to troll Mark Zuckerberg

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Re: Bluesky quickly sold out of the T-shirt its CEO wore to troll Mark Zuckerberg

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Post by invalidname »

theoryofx wrote: post #10
sejje wrote: post #2

> (Yes, it is weird that Zuck goes out of his way to compare himself to a violent dictator.) Why can't news sites just report the news? Why do they need to tell me what to think about it?

What bothers me about this is not injecting an opinion (it's TechCrunch) but the superficial and ignorant take. Julius Caesar was not just some "violent dictator" like a Hitler, Stalin, or Putin. He wasn't sending people off to gas chambers, gulags, or out of windows. He was famous for his clemency toward his enemies in the civil war which made him dictator. Even the title of "dictator" was a legal office in ancient…

Well... About a million dead and a million enslaved might disagree: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gallic_Wars . He murdered/enslaved for political gain back home, then killed the people who opposed to him back in Rome to stop democracy.

I don't want to compare to these other guys because obviously it was a different time/culture and you can't really make such broad sweeping comparisons. I won't judge people for admiring him because I also appreciate a lot of his political and strategic savvy. But he was a very violent dictator.

Re: Bluesky quickly sold out of the T-shirt its CEO wore to troll Mark Zuckerberg

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Post by jazzyjackson »

ceejayoz wrote: post #17
the_optimist wrote: post #13

Earlier quoted context omitted.

So you're saying this is a marketing piece.

What company-branded shirt isn't?

selling out is a marketing piece. If they wanted to raise money for development of AT Proto they could raise more by taking backorders and shipping when available. Selling a limited edition in order to sell out is because it's cheaper to get people to write about you than it is to buy ad placement.

Re: Bluesky quickly sold out of the T-shirt its CEO wore to troll Mark Zuckerberg

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Post by gm3dmo »

rKarpinski wrote: post #11

> Zuckerberg has drawn comparisons between himself and the Roman dictator Julius Caesar Thought it was Caesar Augustus? IIRC Zuckerberg has even claimed that his hairstyle is inspired by him.

here he is training with Henry Cooper:

https://youtu.be/TvjsWmlOJmY

Re: Bluesky quickly sold out of the T-shirt its CEO wore to troll Mark Zuckerberg

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Post by melodyogonna »

pathless wrote: post #22

I forgot about BlueSky since, around ~2 months ago, every last person I followed on there moved back (reopened) to Twitter due to the user number falloff... I am so out of the loop now

Twitter is very usable once you block Elon and the unhinged conspiracy accounts that he retweets.

Re: Bluesky quickly sold out of the T-shirt its CEO wore to troll Mark Zuckerberg

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Post by jazzyjackson »

chomp wrote: post #5
jazzyjackson wrote: post #4

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Is this a serious question

More or less, I am being incredulous that they "didn't make enough oops", it's ink printed on a commodity, there is essentially an endless supply available, so it's a choice to sell out.

Re: Bluesky quickly sold out of the T-shirt its CEO wore to troll Mark Zuckerberg

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Post by croon »

pathless wrote: post #22

I forgot about BlueSky since, around ~2 months ago, every last person I followed on there moved back (reopened) to Twitter due to the user number falloff... I am so out of the loop now

I guess the people I follow either don't care about the numbers or didn't have that issue, but I'm finding more and more of the people I wanted to read from there everyday, and am enjoying it so much more after a year of engagement bait (or worse) on X. Bluesky to me is what Twitter was a few years ago, which (IMHO) is great.

Re: Bluesky quickly sold out of the T-shirt its CEO wore to troll Mark Zuckerberg

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Post by zeroCalories »

drpossum wrote: post #23

While I agree with the sentiment, Bluesky is not the answer to fixing social media.

Social media should never have entered the mainstream. Serious people like politicians should not be on Twitter. You should not be posting about your work drama on Facebook. Bluesky is not fundamentally better than either of those.
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