Tim Onion: So fun fact: The Onion takeover started when I posted "so uh how do we buy The Onion?" on Bluesky. @leilza.bsky.social then reached out to me with a LinkedIn message and the below email. Then we got @strle.bsky.social looped in and it got very real. www.axios.com/2024/04/26/t...

So fun fact: The Onion takeover started when I posted "so uh how do we buy The Onion?" on Bluesky. @leilza.bsky.social then reached out to me with a LinkedIn message and the below email. Then we got @strle.bsky.social looped in and it got very real. www.axios.com/2024/04/26/t...

smh imagine how much more quickly you would've bought the onion if this site had DMs cc @pfrazee.com

That sounds like something we should be working on right now

think about how many more websites we could buy, paul, not just domains don't you want bluesky to be the premier site for buying websites

buying domains, banking, streaming video, ordering food, graphing scientific data— bluesky: the everything app (this is a new idea)

Top website on the Internet for business deals and pervos

“pervos and servos” they’ll say! (that’s when you’re offering sex robots)

🌎👨‍🚀🔫👨‍🚀

this is why @atproto.com is separate from the social app i think

A neo-GoDaddy?

Instead you’re wasting your time on fucking clip clops. You guys are such out of touch nerds

But clip clops have the potential to fundamentally change how you engage with humanity, and brands

yes please call future dms here clip clops that would be amazing

It's kind of two jokes running in parallel. We've codenamed the DMs project clipclops but I'm also running with it as the perpetually-delayed revolutionary feature that is vague technofluff

Brands you say! Well then

What if they had AI

Can you put AI into search Im loving that from meta

I genuinely love that gifs took priority over DMs.

please implement it in some funny way that's extremely over-engineered. Like it's just creating a regular post that can only be viewed and replied to by people @-ed in the root post.

oh thats just mastodon

(making "chop chop" motion with hands) clip clop

Just do an email privacy/relay service. Email is already the perfect way to send DMs

Craigslist does it this way

No please just make it work like Twitter used to

If you want Twitter, you know where to find it. (Less flippantly, Twitter behavior mostly hasn't changed. Just who the preferred users are.)

bad post 👎

This is Mastadon Thought, which has been condemned by the People's Congress of Bluesky's Third Memorandum on Federation.

Pleeeeeeeze

HULLO @pfrazee.com DMs please

DMs eh

We will fight less publicly 😆

I mean I do like your optimism here

pretty please paul 💚🙏💚

Yes. Yesssss.

I rather think that the most fundamentally Onion way to buy The Onion is by shitposting on social media about wanting to buy The Onion.

Posting is praxis

Praxis? You talking about praxis? Sounds like something generated by AI.

The "AI" bit took me a minute 😂

I wrote it hoping to get the “what?…oh I get it” reaction.

“Praxis” is apparently the new “fetch”. I’d never heard that word used in my life before a few months ago and now every week I see it used increasingly more often. Did y’all have a meeting where it was decided, are you all on the same newsletter? No idea why people keep using it all of a sudden

sweetie baby

First time I heard that word was the early 90s. It was an experimental noise rock band. A friend of mine was playing their CD at ear bleeding levels and asked me what I thought. I said they sound like they need more Praxis. So that band joke walked 30 years ago so the AI joke could run today.

Took me a second. Brilliant.

inshallah

This is really, really inspiring. If I find a media property going on sale in the near future, I'm going to try to do the same thing.

in two years brooke binkowski proud owner of newsweek magazine

Omg I was thinking about that but I'm not sure that brand can be saved any more

come onn it’s like a beloved baseball team with a very bad front office

It would be really nice to revive a news org