Microsoft is at this point made up entirely of technically inept people running fraudulent mechanical Turks.
this post was submitted on 09 Sep 2025
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After forced to switch to Microsoft teams, I became their PM and developers are alien origin.
Like, some of the logic doesn’t make any human sense. Like, LLM slop would’ve done better.
Microsoft is such a horrid company.
this is why niche stuff on fedi is so funny sometimes. especially when a corporate entity tried to approach it, in the most corporate way lol.
They don't really understand their user base either
The instance rules state;
3 . No impersonation of a person or a brand. Even parodies.
6 . Each username on here should be a person, not a brand or corporation - and that person must be you, no impersonation.
Now I'm not coming to the defense of a corporation because fuck corps but wouldn't this account violate those rules? Microsoft is a (shitty) brand and this is a parody of that.
I might be wrong but thats how I would interpret those two rules.
And again fuck microsoft, even if it does violate the instance rules it should be left alone just to piss of a shitty corp.
Edit: As TherapyGary pointed out, the instance they are on has no rule pertaining to parody accounts, My bad.
I believe the Microsoft account is hosted on Lea.pet, which doesn't have those rules
could be a rule break of number 9
are we sure on the English translation?
@Una@europe.pub pls translate
"Reject humanity emprace meow meow mrrrp :3"
don’t harass people if there isn’t a valid reason for doing that
what a nothing rule lol, every harasser believes they are justified
This rule is my favorite lol
I like rule 8
Poor Ubuntu.
Some might argue it requires a terminal level of brain worms to understand what is being said with rule 8. But I for one find beauty in this exactly level and flavor of petty, and I come to the fediverse for it.
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Fair point, I didn't know those rules weren't on lea.pet. That's on me I should have checked, my bad.
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6 . Each username on here should be a person, not a brand or corporation - and that person must be you, no impersonation.
"I'm not a businessman, I'm a business, man!"
-Jay-Z regretting his words
You're making the same mistake Microsoft made
Stupid rules deserve breaking.
let them sue, parody is fair use. get that bag king
AI putting copyright troll lawyers out of jobs? Best use I’ve heard of yet.
:D
Not that I have any sympathy for them but technically speaking, can we say "Microsoft does X" when it was just a "brand protection LLM"?
For sure they chose it to be an outward connection but are we really now stating that an LLM can represent a company? I feel like that's both "you are stupid for using LLMs that way" and empowering LLMs at the same time
They are the ones who configured the tool to be used this way. Yes, Microsoft did that.
You're always responsible for the actions of those that you choose to represent you. Regardless of how stupid they may be.
The phrasing is really weird too. Like I would understand if they were asserting their trademark, but saying it's an account they've lost access to?
They don’t even say they lost access. Lol they just say delete it. Fuck these assholes.
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Streisand effect in full swing too. I'm now following @Microsoft@lea.pet :)
I don't get fediverse either. How do I follow that from a Lemmy app. The link dosnt work.
Lemmy doesn't support following people, you need a mastodon or Sharkey account for that. Check sharkey.world and mas.to
Does Microsoft understand anything? At all? They suck at making software, they suck at making operating systems, they suck at making genAI, they suck at making game consoles, they're starting to suck at owning github, what don't they suck at? What part of their business is done better than anyone else? What end user experience is better on an MS product than anywhere else? They have a shittier alternative to literally everything and nothing truly good.
They rock at being the default. As much as I love LibreOffice MS office is probably the best office suite I've used too.
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I feel like this is going to become a problem with federation in the future. A Mastodon instance is hosting content outside of its control that may or may not comply with its internal policies or local law. Is that instance protected legally? Likely not.
It would likely be treated the same way as auto forwarding an email would be treated.
AT proto's PDS architecture does solve that 👀
Edit: I do want to say that after reading this blog post I have become a bit more lenient on ATProto. It seemed rather neutral and objective and found several upsides that I think are worth taking a look at.
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thanks microsoft! i just followed the account!
Oh my fucking god! Please, M$, do continue!!
Look ma, my instance is being threatened! Proud to be on the instance of Mastodon CEO 🥹
Ok but fr, MS please don't shut down cyberplace.social I just switched to there like a few months ago.
Let's save this post for the next follow friday...
Microsoft doesn't understand parody
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