When Bluesky’s general manager, Jay Graber, took the SXSW phase this week, she managed to make fun of Mark Zuckerberg without mentioning meta. Its black t-shirt was decorated with black text lying across the chest and sleeves, similar to the style of a blouse the billionaire founder was wearing at an event last year. Graber’s shirt was declared in Latin, Caesar. Or, “a world without caesar”.
In Bluesky, users expressed such excitation for the graber blouse that the platform decided to sell copies to raise money for its developer ecosystem.
$ 40 shirt available in S – XL size sold in approximately 30 minutes.
Zuckerberg has attracted comparisons between himself and Roman dictator Julius Caesar – his special T -shirt that Graber is referring to Or zuck or nothingor “zuck or nothing”. Is a knot for the Latin phrase Or Caesar or nothingadapting to the Roman leader’s regime. (Yes, it is strange that Zuck gets out of his way to compare himself to a violent dictator.)
Although it is small compared to the Meta Empire, Bluesky’s open -sourced infrastructure imagines a form of social media, where individual leaders do not hold all power.
Creates the possibility that every developer contributes to the growth of the platform. So graber shirt is not just a small slide in a much larger competitor – it represents the ethics that Bluesky is trying to live.
“If a billionaire would go inside and buy Bluesky, either take over, or if I decided to change things tomorrow in a way that people really disliked, then they could get the fork and go to another request,” Graber told SXSW. “There are already network applications that give you another way to see the network, or you can build a new one too. And so opening guarantees that there is always the ability to move on to a new alternative.”
