Bluesky made more money selling T-shirts mocking Mark Zuckerberg in one day than it has in two years of selling custom domains
Bluesky made more money selling T-shirts mocking Mark Zuckerberg in one day than it has in two years of selling custom domains
Shirt took a stab at Mark Zuckerberg, to the delight of many.
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.
I'm going to state an unpopular opinion. Bluesky should have ads, not a personalized ads that track users, but just simple ones at the very top of the feed. Consumers today are too addicted to free services, and companies need to be financially independent so that they can support a quality product.
of course the android wears a shirt with latin phrases.
That's all well and good, but the problem remains: Namely, the fact that Meta earns far more every day than all companies worldwide earn from the sale of T-shirts put together - much, much more. And Meta pretty much doesn't even sell anything physical (Oculus, c'mon). They mainly just sell massive reach for advertisements and PR (influencing opinions). In addition they sell, the personal data of users to make that work devilishly acuarate. As long as the vast majority doesn't care how this business model works and what power the centralization of attention actually means even for their own reality, nothing will change, I'm afraid.
I mean why is this surprising? Custom domains are a very niche thing; the majority of people don't know or don't care.
I guess most people who want to use a domain as their username aready have that domain.
Every little bit helps.
Hmm, yes, ads bad but that IS a good product