Perfect!
In Wyoming, the legislature has decided, that you cannot require others to address you by your preferred pronouns — thinking that this will only hurt trans people, Trump wants to persecute.
So citizen Britt Boril calls in to a committee meeting and deliberately misgenders the male chairman as madam, which he takes offence to — because our rule about allowing disrespect was not meant to be used against us!
(And no, you should never misgenders others, but damn… this move was brilliant)
@briankrebs there used to be scroll.com - ad-free articles on participating sites and then it was bought by Twitter to become part of Twitter Blue subscription: https://x.com/tryscroll?t=pmRPbtkl-zpvWFToUURZ1Q&s=09
Not exactly bypassed the paywall, IIRC.
@timbray the blog post did help me understand the difference in the approaches.
It seems to me there is no "better" alternative, just different tradeoffs. With AP you get federation but sacrifice the completeness of the conversation state (comments, like counts). With Bluesky you get the consistent experience for all users but you have centralization. There is no option that has it all.
I appreciate how developer friendly Bluesky is. I guess the concern is that it may not last long.
@mmasnick that's great to hear!
Another idea to consider: if as a user I get some revenue share but it's not worth it for me to cash out those $0.37 - give me an option to pass it on to authors I liked.
I hope the team is also thinking through the unintended consequences of such an incentive system. For example, would it incentivize "like farming" kind of content? Or would it make people post the same content as their own post instead of reposting someone else's post to claim the authorship?
@peterbutler @dangillmor I wonder how Bluesky will make money as well.
Charging for premium posting features is not sustainable because you would be charging your best users - content creators.
I like what Twitch is doing with premium subscriptions - the viewers are paying Twitch to support their favorite creators and Twitch gets a cut.
Imagine paying $5/month on Bluesky and at the end of each month 70% of it gets distributed to the authors of posts that you 'liked' and 30% goes to Bluesky.
@timbray Mike Masnick says it's already decentralized: https://bsky.app/profile/mmasnick.bsky.social/post/3l7yu2fvbcb2f
Would love to understand their positions more.
18 percent of all cars sold worldwide in 2023 were EVs.
https://www.iea.org/reports/global-ev-outlook-2024/executive-summary
But in the US, it's only 6.5%.
https://www.edmunds.com/electric-car/articles/percentage-of-electric-cars-in-us.html
Why? Because Americans are by and large offered the most expensive EVs.
Those of us with more modest means get priced out, and the more affordable EVs aren't allowed into the US.
Because profits.
The Office of the President of Ukraine officially denies any involvement in tonights terror attack in Moscow.
This message is crucial, because Putin could very well be interested in using this terror attack, false flag operation, or whatever this is, as an excuse for mobilization.
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