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[-] CosmicTurtle0@lemmy.dbzer0.com 9 points 1 month ago

Am I the only one questioning why Microslop has a Discord server? Don't they have a chat product?

[-] kautau@lemmy.world 5 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago)

"Hello I'm [generic person 2387362] and I'm the community manager for [generic corporation/tool/product 1892873]! I just started a few weeks ago and I'm so excited to announce that in the interest of [generic engagement and advertising], we've started a discord server! We [positive transitive verb] our community, and want to bring them together so they can share some of the [productivity success stories] they've had or ask the community for support! Remember, while this is an official [generic corporation] channel, by joining this community you agree to [27 pages of legal terms about them owning your messages and data farming you]."

[-] Ranulph@thelemmy.club 2 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago)

You son of a bitch I'm in!! Where do I sign up?

[-] bhamlin@lemmy.world 2 points 1 month ago

They do, but have you ever seen a party that everyone knows about but no one shows up to? That's Microsoft's non-paid chat service.

[-] Viking_Hippie@lemmy.dbzer0.com 9 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago)

Reminds me of the time when Disney allegedly* sent a memo to workers at Disney Land and Disney World telling them that, if they didn't stop complaining about the abysmal working conditions by calling both parks Mousewitz, they'd be fired.

Within the hour, workers started calling it Duchau in stead.

*read: probably

[-] lornosaj@lemmy.world 3 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago)

I get the Mousewitz part but what’s the reference to Dachau about? Duchau read like Duckau as in Donald Duck?

[-] theolodis@feddit.org 4 points 1 month ago

Dachau was one if the first concentration camps in Germany.

[-] luciferofastora@feddit.org 2 points 1 month ago

Remember how Americans would pronounce the ch. They already basically say Dackau, so Duckau isn't a far stretch.

[-] ms_lane@lemmy.world 9 points 1 month ago

NoPilot

I like it, I like it.

[-] BryyM@lemmy.world 4 points 1 month ago

Thank you for pointing out this clearly superior word, you expanded my vocabulary!

[-] fritobugger2017@lemmy.world 8 points 1 month ago

Go to microsoft dot com. Click their chat help bot. Ask "What is microslop?" get told, sorry, I cannot help you with that and turns itself off.

[-] Ranulph@thelemmy.club 7 points 1 month ago

I just did that..and it said....''it would seem you are referring to Microsoft'' So all of your hard work was not in vain. It is now self aware

[-] umbraroze@slrpnk.net 6 points 1 month ago

That's a bit weird. They didn't get this worked up about being called "Micro$oft" or something. This is probably hitting the nerve in a completely different way!

[-] Techlos@lemmy.dbzer0.com 5 points 1 month ago

They're proud capitalists, so it never bothered them. They aren't proud of their slopware though

[-] BodilessGaze@sh.itjust.works 2 points 1 month ago

Microsoft has over 200k employees, and the people (person?) managing the discord are probably at the bottom of the totem pole. I doubt they put more than 5 seconds of thought into this.

[-] Dentzy@sh.itjust.works 5 points 1 month ago

I loved the:

Of course, the internet rarely leaves things there.

There are many things wrong about the current Internet, but the pettiness against any affront (real or perceived) won't ever die, and I think that's good.

[-] MedicPigBabySaver@lemmy.world 3 points 1 month ago
[-] bhamlin@lemmy.world 2 points 1 month ago

And if they keep it up, Macroslop

[-] Jhex@lemmy.world 3 points 1 month ago

Oh Microslop... throwing tantrums like a 5 year old brat

[-] Tar_alcaran@sh.itjust.works 3 points 1 month ago

Microslop should ask their own NoPilot about the Streisand Effect.

[-] village604@adultswim.fan 2 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago)

Idk Microsoft, maybe fix your AI so it doesn't recommend Microsoft products that are either ~~depreciated~~ deprecated or don't exist.

It's pretty embarrassing for you.

[-] jwt@programming.dev 1 points 1 month ago
[-] village604@adultswim.fan 1 points 1 month ago

Thank you for the correction!

[-] XLE@piefed.social 2 points 1 month ago

Things must be rough for the AI fandom when a Discord made for CoPilot is unsustainably critical of CoPilot

[-] Aberration13@lemmy.world 2 points 1 month ago
[-] DarrinBrunner@lemmy.world 6 points 1 month ago
[-] MonkderVierte@lemmy.zip 4 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago)

Good old roflcopter.

Wait, this a picture? Seriously? Here's some ascii art ones: https://gist.github.com/MatthewRalston/3f529c819e4976c7e6572f5682c8959f

[-] foggy@lemmy.world 1 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago)

Making me wanna put the old lollerskates back on or perhaps pet my dear old cat, roofles tenten mayo.

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[-] EndlessNightmare@reddthat.com 2 points 1 month ago

I hate this timeline, but I do enjoy the small moments of absurdity when I can.

[-] rogsson@piefed.social 2 points 1 month ago

Why would Microslop do this? Aren’t they proud of the slop they are filling everything with? Or is this just a simple insecurity thing? Want us to call you Macroslop instead?

[-] UnderpantsWeevil@lemmy.world 1 points 1 month ago

Love how every social media site is becoming more and more like /r/Conservative.

[-] DrDickHandler@lemmy.world 1 points 1 month ago

They essentially ARE. You can also throw in all major broadcasting networks in that bucket as well. Everything is pro Israel and they are all trying to justify their genocide to their dumb fuck base.

[-] pivot_root@lemmy.world 0 points 1 month ago

Filled by morons and Russian bots?

[-] 0_o7@lemmy.dbzer0.com 1 points 1 month ago

Whatever floats your boat.

[-] UnderpantsWeevil@lemmy.world 1 points 1 month ago

You'd never even know other countries have the ability to use Markov Chains.

[-] sylver_dragon@lemmy.world 1 points 1 month ago

Microslop needs to ask Copilot about the Streisand Effect. As someone not chronically on social media, I hadn't heard about this term yet. Now, it's one of my favorites.

Funny enough, I've been experimenting with Copilot at work and it does have some genuine uses for looking up information quickly. Especially when trying to troubleshoot Microslop products. Between the disaster called "Windows 11", the cluster-fuck which is New Outlook and the complete shitshow which falls under the umbrella of "Defender", it's obvious that they have stopped investing in QA and testing. At least Copilot can help me find the right document to quickly tell me that I can't do something I used to be able to do in the old version of Outlook. Or, that Defender is incapable of doing things which even Symantec Antivirus had gotten right in the early 2000's.

[-] BryyM@lemmy.world 1 points 1 month ago

Please edit your post to add Nopilot instead of copilot, its the superior word

[-] LiveLM@lemmy.zip 1 points 1 month ago

I wanna join the server just to look at the absolute loser shit that must be going down in the "Aha AI Moments" channel

[-] NavySqueal@lemmy.world 1 points 1 month ago

Ah microslop kicking themselves for not buying discord

[-] OwOarchist@pawb.social 1 points 1 month ago

They would have run it into the ground with mismanagement and a new chat application would become the popular choice within a year, while Microslop's new acquisition fades into obscurity, eventually to be depreciated and shut down my Microslop themselves.

As has happened multiple times already in history.

[-] teslasdisciple@lemmy.ca 1 points 1 month ago

20 years ago (yes, I'm old) we called it Microshaft Winblows. Perhaps it's time to resurrect that.

[-] morriscox@lemmy.world 0 points 1 month ago

This is like going to someone's place and loudly and constantly insulting them. Would you put up with it if people were doing that to you? You don't have to be a Microsoft fan to find that kind of behavior unacceptable. Just because it's online doesn't mean that it's acceptable.

First: it's a brand, not a person. A brand can't be offended, because, as previously stated, it's NOT a person with feelings.

Second: People are just using a name because they are expressing their thoughts about what microslop has become. Doing what they did is basically telling the world they are 5 years old

Third: Look for a certain Streisand woman, name: Barbra.

Fourth: Please, don't be a shill. It's a corpo, you don't need to defend them, even you are on their payroll. They will survive without your defense.

[-] Holytimes@sh.itjust.works 1 points 1 month ago

But legally it is a person. And legally it can be offended.

So technically...

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