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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[–] 208 points 2 years ago (13 children)

Where’s Brutus when you need him?

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    What does this mean? Am I old?

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  • [–] 51 points 2 years ago (3 children)

    Its actually a pretty well aged reference, of legal drinking age in the US.

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  • [–] 196 points 2 years ago (43 children)

    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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  • [–] 94 points 2 years ago (4 children)

    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

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  • [–] 72 points 2 years ago (4 children)

    Here you go:

    At Meta’s annual Connect event in Menlo Park, Calif., Zuckerberg wore a custom T-shirt with the Latin phrase “aut Zuck aut nihil,” or “all Zuck or all nothing,” as he revealed the first working prototype of Meta’s augmented-reality glasses.

    The phrase was a play on “aut Caesar aut nihil,” which means “either a Caesar or nothing,” or more simply “all or nothing.”

    Zuckerberg has long been interested in the Roman Empire. He spent his honeymoon in Rome and two of his children, August and Aurelia, are named after emperors Augustus and Marcus Aurelius.

    Incidentally, fascists tend to have a hard-on for ancient Rome, but I'm sure that's just a coincidence.

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  • [–] 23 points 2 years ago (1 child)

    Zuck puts out this weird “pick me” or “me too” energy lately, trying to fashion himself as one compatible with Trump’s world. His interest in Rome may precede Trump’s ascension to power, but his coming out is not a coincidence in my view. And yes, a fascination with Rome started as so many other things as an “innocent” meme and became a fascist dog-whistle.

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    [–] 60 points 2 years ago (1 child)

    This is my kind of monetization.

    Feels way better than getting features pulled and put behind an increasingly higher paywall.

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  • [–] 49 points 2 years ago (24 children)

    So is lemmy or mastodon selling shirts yet? if not, why not?

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  • [–] 46 points 2 years ago (8 children)

    I was on Reddit for 12 years with nearly a million Karma, and I got permabanned soon after the Inauguration for repeating an anti-MAGA opinion I had posted numerous times before he was elected.

    I came over to Lemmy, and discovered that I was only one victim of a bloodbath, demonstrating that Reddit had decided to forego their free speech mission, and grovel for their new masters. Pathetic punk ass corporation.

    I never wore a Reddit shirt, but I'd happily wear a Lemmy shirt.

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  • [–] 20 points 2 years ago (3 children)

    I imagine selling t-shirts would be against the Marxist/Leninist ideology of Lenny’s devs?

    But given the volume of non-tankie instances now up and running, I’m sure some enterprising admins would be willing to give it a go.

    ..and as long as they’re ethically sourced (no sweatshops), high quality (materials and GSM), and reasonably priced (accounting for the other two factors) - I’m all for it!

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    [–] 41 points 2 years ago (5 children)

    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.

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    [–] 41 points 2 years ago (3 children)

    That's cool but I'll check back in to see which fascist technocrat is running bluesky in 8 years

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    [–] 36 points 2 years ago (3 children)

    Who got a link? I wanna buy one

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  • [–] 35 points 2 years ago (10 children)

    it’s a fire shirt not gonna lie

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  • [–] 89 points 2 years ago (57 children)

    As much as I hate to be that guy, it's worth keeping in mind that BlueSky is not really practising what they preach here. The AT protocol formally allows for a kind of decentralization, but it is prohibitively expensive to run an instance, meaning that only rich folks or those who are willing to accept money from venture capitalists will be capable of actually doing so.

    ActivityPub already existed when they started BlueSky. They chose to not make their protocol compatible. The reason is simple: They are a company, and they have a profit motive. ActivityPub is too democratic, and therefore hard to monetize. By now they have a bunch of crypto bro investors who want their money back. It's better to leave your money elsewhere.

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  • [–] 41 points 2 years ago (12 children)

    I obviously support ActivityPub or I wouldn’t be posting this here but one of the AtProtocol developers bought a Raspberry Pi with 8GB ram and added an NVME drive. He’s trying to prove (or possibly make) this point wrong. https://bsky.app/profile/why.bsky.team

    So far, it seems like it’s “working” but he’s found some things that are way too slow and needs to be fixed for it to run on a Raspberry Pi. But that gives me some confidence that the developers, at least, aren’t trying to make it so only people with deep pockets can run an instance. (I don’t know what the investors want but the developers aren’t scheming assholes.)

    It’s probably going to ultimately be a situation where anyone with a high end PC (by today’s standards) can run their own instance. It’s definitely not an A.I. situation where you have to reopen Three Mile Island and piss away more water than Nestle to self-host.

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  • [–] 27 points 2 years ago (1 child)

    Their custom domain business can't be big, I am assuming they merely get some referral commission from sending business to a registrar, that can't be a lot of money.

    Or am I missing something?

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    [–] 19 points 2 years ago

    of course the android wears a shirt with latin phrases.

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