Trevor Croker

@trevor.bsky.social

335

Followers

467

Following

409

Posts

Editor at Techmeme

Posts Replies Media

Reposted by

Trevor Croker

With all due respect to Jack for having the vision to invest in decentralized protocols, we’ve carried out the work in a way I don’t think he fully understands. Bluesky is structurally open in a way Twitter has never been, but the design of atproto allows it to feel familiar and easy to use.

Air Bud reboot time

There’s no rule against making a dog speaker of the house

Reposted by

Trevor Croker

We reached 1,000,000 users! blueskyweb.xyz/blog/9-12-20...

Reaching 1 Million Usersblueskyweb.xyz Today, we reached over one million users on Bluesky.

Reposted by

Trevor Croker

Sources: Meta plans to launch a web version of Threads early this week (Wall Street Journal) Main Link | Techmeme Permalink

You can have the best text post, but a picture of a cat is going to win 10 out of 10 times.

The Bluesky Team feed no longer shows posts from individual devs/staff, only the official Bluesky accounts.

In news that will surprise no one, the value of Starbucks NFTs (Odyssey) has bottomed out. NFTs that were trading for hundreds are now worth ~$20.

Mad Libs for companies in 2023: [Your company name] CEO: ‘We’re going to build AI into every platform we build’

Intel CEO: “We’re going to build AI into every platform we build”www.theverge.com The cloud is too slow, says Gelsinger.

Little known fact: spring water companies are legally required to IPO during the spring. https://www.theinformation.com/articles/liquid-death-hires-goldman-sachs-aiming-for-2024-ipo

Liquid Death Hires Goldman Sachs, Aiming for 2024 IPOwww.theinformation.com The parched market for initial public offerings is likely to see a new entrant soon: a canned water company. Liquid Death, the irreverent water brand backed by venture capitalists, has hired Goldman S...

Happy T&C Season y'all!

You're on Twitter having your DMs limited I'm on Bluesky politely asking people not to read skeets without first checking if your name is on it

Updated Betteridge's law of headlines: "X is dead" = Only when narrowly defined https://techcrunch.com/2023/07/20/vr-is-dead/

VR is dead | TechCrunchtechcrunch.com That’s because VR — like Meta Quest 2 — and even AR, to some extent, like Apple Vision Pro, are missing one crucial thing.

Reposted by

Trevor Croker

I wrote a thing about Bluesky, trust & safety, and communications. I expect some people will yell at me about this. Because people always yell about this. https://www.techdirt.com/2023/07/20/trust-safety-and-communication/

Trust, Safety, And Communicationwww.techdirt.com One thing that should be evident by now is that every online community eventually learns the need for some level of “trust & safety” or basic moderation to take place. And they quickly find tha…

Reposted by

Trevor Croker

Kevin Mitnick, a hacker best known for his crime spree in the 1990s, who later became a consultant, writer, and public speaker after leaving prison, dies at 59 (New York Times) Main Link | Techmeme Permalink

Tour de France highlight is this man offering up a fresh pizza

Slugs in my garden think this is the App Store and they are entitled to 30% of my produce.

Reposted by

Trevor Croker

Wrote about the racist user names on this website and how the issue reveals one of Bluesky's core challenges: building world-class content moderation for an app and business model that were never really designed to support that https://www.platformer.news/p/bluesky-threads-and-the-decentralization

Reposted by

Trevor Croker

a brief explainer about what went down on this app this weekend: https://techcrunch.com/2023/07/17/bluesky-racial-slurs-banned-list-usernames/

Bluesky is under fire for allowing usernames with racial slurs | TechCrunchtechcrunch.com It's the latest miss for Bluesky, which has already gotten backlash for being slow to respond to hate speech and threats.

They tried to add behavioral ads to Bluesky but the algorithm exploded once the content was fed in

Engagement-bait for journalists

Twitter waning, Threads & Bluesky federation TBD, Mastodon's content obscured by design, as we cloister ourselves to one or endlessly tab between them all.

Liquid Death preparing for an IPO in the spring? I would expect no other season. https://www.theinformation.com/articles/liquid-death-hires-goldman-sachs-aiming-for-2024-ipo

Goldman Sachs estimates TikTok paid less to the recording industry (~$220M) than Peloton (~$267M) last year. That's mostly because Peloton has to pay performance royalty rates, which are more expensive.

Peloton paid the record industry more than TikTok last year, says Goldman Sachs (and 3 more revelati...www.musicbusinessworldwide.com Music Business Worldwide combs through the latest iteration of one of music’s most influential financial reports…

People shit on YouTube, but no other platform randomly suggests I watch a 26 minute video on the Opossum https://youtu.be/GLQr1wLr_Xo

Opossums, the Marsupial Evolutionary Wonder of Americayoutu.be Opossums are America's only marsupial and while they may not be the cuddliest critters, they are an evolutionary wonder.Hosted by Ed Clark, Untamed takes you...

India's IT ministry is trying to downplay this, but it doesn't bode well when multiple foreign investors are pulling out of your country's domestic chip push. https://www.reuters.com/technology/foxconn-pulls-out-india-chip-jv-with-vedanta-2023-07-10/

Foxconn dumps $19.5 bln Vedanta chip plan in blow to Indiawww.reuters.com Taiwan's Foxconn has withdrawn from a $19.5 billion semiconductor joint venture with Indian metals-to-oil conglomerate Vedanta, it said on Monday in a setback to Prime Minister Narendra Modi's chipmak...

Elon has always over-promised and under-delivered on his growth metrics.

Elon has a genius strategy for wooing advertisers to Twitter over Zuck's Threads

ZIRP was a ZIRP phenomenon

Transparency! *but not too much* OECD pressed Australia to drop plan to reveal where multinationals pay tax https://www.ft.com/content/b21cfde0-8940-45db-b3e3-3e9807d7b957