Bluesky made more money selling T-shirts mocking Mark Zuckerberg in one day than it has in two years of selling custom domains
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Yeah I think I just naively didn't notice until recently. I hate that the departure feels so political, because I mostly followed really chill subreddits. I don't see as much active discussion here on Lemmy yet, but I love the fediverse concept and am here for seeing this place flourish.
At ease soldier! Thanks for fighting the good fight. Are bots not so much a problem on Lemmy?
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Yeah, I can picture much of roman history in my mind and put into context. Asian history is almost like fantasy lore and no matter how much I learn about it I cannot wrap my mind around how recent tieping rebellion is even though christanity played a huge role in it.
Taiping Rebellion is a mess.
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If you think thats weird you haven't even scratched the surface on Zuck. He actually idolizes Emperor Augustus Caesar so much that he copied the guys haircut for most of his career. Behind the Bastards does a good job of highlighting it. If you want a quick readable version, here's the first non paywalled article I could find. https://www.businessinsider.com/mark-zuckerberg-fascinated-by-augustus-future-of-facebook-2018-9
All of this is literally unbelievable for me. I don’t even have words to express how unexpectedly odd reading comments in this thread has been.
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Zuckerberg wears t-shirts comparing himself to Julius Caesar? Why is that every time I think I’m up-to-date on the latest weirdness there’s more of it?
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Best nerdy program name ever.
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Not for me, I live in Australia. $80USD shipped. I'll pass
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That must have been frustrating when the user base responded "but I already got my Blåhaj"
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Augustus, not Julius.
Gaius Julius Caesar, most probably bisexual as widely accepted in Roman society, rumored to have been having an affair with the King of Bithynia and affected by mini-strokes or epilepsy.
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Oh fuck me, HOW in like 25 years did I not get that pun?!
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Sorry but which country is this? Can you elaborate on that photo?
Belgium.
As I said, after winning the national election.
While we have an even more extreme party (VB)he is the leader of the NVA, basically a nationalist separatist party that wants to split the country and indepence for the Flemish speaking part.
Historically they were the party that collaborated with the nazis.
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To be fair, Roman history is really cool.
True, but there is a lot of Roman history and some find it cool for the wrong reasons.
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Best nerdy program name ever.
I got my copy of Nero from limewire. It only took 3 full wipes of windows to find one that wasn't a Trojan.
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Agreed. But if you're going to fixate on one era, you could do a lot worse than Roman history.
Other cool eras to fixate on:
- Joseon Dynasty and Sejong the Great in Korea
- Chola Empire - naval empire before navies were really a thing
- Ethiopian Empire - somehow survived with strong empire neighbors
There's a lot of really cool history, Roman history is extra cool though since you can see so much of it in Europe.
You can also hear it every day if you’re an English speaker. The Roman conquest of England greatly affected the English language.
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Ofcourse they ain’t making shit from custom domains. Anyone who is interested in connecting a domain to their Bsky account and has the skills or patience to learn how to probably already has a domain bought at another registrar to connect to.
No, its because they don't advertise it at all. The page for buying them has the date 2023 on it.
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Zuckerberg doesn't seem like he has the charisma for that.
I can't really remember hearing him speak at all tbh
I do, when he was talking about rolling back facebooks moderation. His voice still sounds robotic, those hair implants ain't fooling anyone.
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Oh fuck me, HOW in like 25 years did I not get that pun?!
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Oh fuck me, HOW in like 25 years did I not get that pun?!
Maan, same 🤯
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I got my copy of Nero from limewire. It only took 3 full wipes of windows to find one that wasn't a Trojan.
The good old times
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ActivityPub already existed when they started BlueSky. They chose to not make their protocol compatible.
Traditionally, that's what new major version numbers are for. IF (and I stress the "if" because I have no clue about protocol design) it turns out that AT has useful features, a merger of ideas of both ActivityPub and AT could lead to ActivityPub 2.0.
That would be somewhat similar to AMD's proprietary Mantle leading to Vulkan (which was originally intended to launch as OpenGL 5.0).
AP is flexible enough that you can do most AT stuff within AP.
