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Bluesky made more money selling T-shirts mocking Mark Zuckerberg in one day than it has in two years of selling custom domains (fortune.com)
submitted 1 week ago by SleafordMod@feddit.uk to c/technology@lemmy.world
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I thought this was slightly funny.

Mark Zuckerberg is known these days for wearing t-shirts with Latin phrases on them, especially ones where he compares himself to Julius Caesar.

Bluesky made a shirt in the same style, but theirs says "a world without Caesars" in Latin.

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[–] woelkchen@lemmy.world 4 points 1 week ago (1 children)

This is a benefit for Bluesky who do not want to be responsible for moderating their platform.

At least in Germany there is a mandatory German filter list that seems to be maintained by Bluesky themselves. They couldn't legally operate here if they allowed holocaust denial and such.

[–] cabbage@piefed.social 1 points 1 week ago (1 children)

There are minimum standards they'll have to abide by, but that's similar to Meta after their change of policy. It really is not enough that it should make anyone feel comfortable.

Basically big platforms can choose between making moderation expensive, minimal, or arbitrary. Bluesky is leaning into minimal, keeping the door open for most things as long as they're legal. Reddit is leaning into arbitrary, having AI banning folks on account of upvotes. Facebook used to dabble with expensive, but have made a recent shift into minimal.

[–] supersquirrel@sopuli.xyz 0 points 1 week ago

Bluesky is leaning into minimal, keeping the door open for most things as long as they're legal.

This simply will not work, some other option, probably rushed, poorly thought through and ultimately more authoritarian than an honestly constructed moderation structure would have been will be implemented when this approach ultimately fails catastrophically.

I pre-emptively post a surprised pikachu here to signify this

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