Is it real? I can't find any serious news outlet confirming that information. The whole site looks AI generated...
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throw_m239339 commented on Bluesky: Updated Terms and Policies bsky.social/about/blog/08... · Posted by u/mschuster91
Sounds almost like we need something similar to Google+'s circles, but instead of just being able to tag followers/followees into categories, it'd also be useful to be able to tag your own posts into different feeds that people can individually follow or avoid (hashtags aren't really robust enough for this).
Of course, if you see everyone following you for topic X but that nobody wants to hear your opinion about anything else, I can imagine that making it feel like people are just using you as a tool, and that decreasing incentive to participate in the whole thing. But it'd be interesting to try at scale.
It's funny you talk about Google Plus. the only reason I didn't stay more than 10 minutes on that social media is because of that horrible sticky header that was taking 1/3 of the browser screen on a laptop.
How could that design choice go past basic UI/UX checks is still beyond me after all these years, it made that website horrible to browse.
throw_m239339 commented on Bluesky: Updated Terms and Policies bsky.social/about/blog/08... · Posted by u/mschuster91
> It's like when you see headlines claiming "people" are outraged by a jeans advertisement. Are they really? Who? How many? Really I think it's just something to argue about for entertainment's sake.
The media activist classes were absolutely genuinely offended by it; here are two mainstream pieces from July 28th, five days after the ad campaign launched:
The Washington Post discussing how the ad's tagline reminded them of "the DHS Instagram account, which posted a subtly racist painting a few weeks ago and an explicitly racist painting last week":
https://www.washingtonpost.com/style/2025/07/28/sydney-sween...
An MSNBC opinion piece, by an MSNBC producer: "Sydney Sweeney's ad shows an unbridled cultural shift toward whiteness":
https://www.msnbc.com/opinion/msnbc-opinion/sydney-sweeney-a...
"The advertisement, the choice of Sweeney as the sole face in it and the internet’s reaction reflect an unbridled cultural shift toward whiteness, conservatism and capitalist exploitation. Sweeney is both a symptom and a participant."
Aren't like MSNBC and CNBC part of the same group? isn't CNBC a news channel about capitalism and the free market?
I find it so odd when billion dollar corporations publish pieces like that... like, can't you first look in the mirror? this weird alliance between economic liberalism and that neo marxist intersectionality is so... hypocritical...
The thing is that if Google choses to make Android OS as closed as iOS, I'd rather use an iPhone than an Android phone...