We are in the dumbest timeline ever. It's breathtakingly dumb.

Um well looks like there is some arguing over it all. I’m going with ancient aliens. It’s way more fun than our current reality

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Looking around Bluesky I see distain for Slotkin. Apparently she’s boring. Maybe. I’ve been to congressional town halls, wrote letters, and called. Nearly all of democratic congress just uselessly complains on social media and then does virtually nothing. At least she is presenting a plan

Anyway, @mcuban.bsky.social there's my 2 cents. It would be nice if Bluesky survives, but I'm not hopeful at this point. I think the barrier for new content creators to gain traction way to high right now vs say Tiktok where someone can start making money pretty easily compared to other platforms

This isn't a new idea really by any means, but I think it would potentially be a better business model than traditional social media advertising. If you then take a page from Tiktok Shop and create a Bluesky Shop with paid referrals you then creators could actually make money.

5/n

So why not make Bluesky premium feeds. I get it would take modifying the protocol and a lot of work, but I would absolutely pay for a great stock feed, expert opinions on various scientific topics, health advice; you could maybe have paid sports commentary feeds. I don't know.

4/n

My most valuable content I consume now are newsletters. The are usually free of bullshit and full of good content. I don't mind ads in the newsletter either. They are unobtrusive and relevant. More than I can say for any social media site.

3/n

But you can't make users setup servers for feeds. Content creators don't want to do that. You need simple settings similar to the reply settings.

2/n

I’m sure they’ll do a bang up job in privacy too. Tech bros are known for that right…