Yeah. I’m not a big short form social media person, so a world with or without Bluesky (or Twitter) changes little. Bluesky has good people and communities within it, but a lot of the people on it are just a mirror reflection of the American Right. Devoid of critical thinking, they follow whatever the left cause of the day is.
While that’s much preferable to Twitter in 2025 (and the right)… it’s not encouraging as for the future of, frankly everything.
Aheming about "the right" aside... there exists people across the political spectrum that think the way they do because of a variety of reasons. Some because they read the literature and arrived at the conclusion, some because that is the economically or socially advantage position to be in, and some because that is just their political position tautologically.
Along with everything else mentioned, there is a certain group of people who consider the language “woke”. Usually that’s not the critique you see on HN, but be wary of it.
What is Spinel? Astral is the developer of uv, and they have announced their hosted platform service, pyx [0]. It appears it will be FOSS as well, but they'll have a hosted version of it.
Exactly, Netanyahu is contentious on BOTH sides of the political aisle. You're advertising to an ever decreasing spectrum of the right. Beyond the moral objections over this, I'm just confused how this happened from a PR perspective.
As an Argentinian, Israel/Netanyahu are generally well received (because of many people with Jewish heritage) by people in the center/right, even people in the left spectrum will be reticent about criticizing if they come from a Jewish family. The echo chamber is very real if you only watch right-leaning TV channels for example (most of them).
Pure speculation from now on, but afaik Guillermo lives in the USA, and as the CEO of an international company I'm also surprised he's so tone deaf but it's not the only example (i.e. check Galperin's Twitter feed). I don't think it's about sending a message I think Guillermo probably follows Argentinian media/politics and fell for the echo chamber, he also wanted to look cool/important for Milei.
From all I can observe, it does seem to have a sinister political undertone. In that, Ruby Central's collapse started because Sidekiq disagreed with them platforming dhh, and then Shopify (who has dhh as a board member, and whose CEO races with dhh) used the funding weakness to demand a purge of anyone they disagreed with.
As an aside, I imagine the discussion of this will be end up being... difficult, because people are tending not react to these sorts of things well.
> who has dhh as a board member, and whose CEO races with dhh
Oh, so this is just dhh doing a hostile takeover of core ruby infrastructure where previously he had to try to work with people, now he can just tell people what he wants to be done, because they work for him.
>Ruby Central's collapse started because Sidekiq disagreed with them platforming dhh
I remember Ruby Central denied they ever tried to deplatform DHH. But now when they are platforming DHH Sidekiq wants out.
I honestly think it is may be way simpler. Shopify is willing to sponsor and put money into it but they also want it done ASAP, preferably now. They give a deadline and Ruby Central didn't think, plan or act until too late.
And the moment it was badly done, politics creeps in.
As far as I can see this is a non-Governmental non-profit doing this. So it has no legal
merit. Can’t tell if this is the ad industry attempting to self-regulate? The Wikipedia articles are quite mealy.
> As far as I can see this is a non-Governmental non-profit doing this. So it has no legal merit.
It has no legal weight. Lave of legal merit is a feature of a legal argument and is missing if the argument improperly represents the law, not if it comes from a source that doesn’t provide it legal weight. (Since you later say you agree with it. that is equivalent to saying that, insofar as it is a legal argument, that argument does have legal merit.)
> Can’t tell if this is the ad industry attempting to self-regulate?
No, it is a non-advertising industry non-profit doing research and reporting to the public, which potentially puts political pressure on government actors (State Attorneys-General and, maybe, the FTC) to take action (it could also provide ammunition for private lawsuits, except COPPA doesn’t provide a private cause of action.)
Note that a part of COPPA regulation is a Safe Harbor provision which involves industry self-regulation and certification, but that only protects against FTC, not state, action.
Indeed. It's one of those "we joined this program so now you all can see we are very committed to ensure our consumers are well protected" non-profit organisations.
Yeah, ironically, it's the BBB, which used to rate businesses based in part on how much the business paid them (without disclosing this to consumers, of course).
