Gregory's Server@atomicpoet @dotnet @fediversenews
> By why would Microsoft put the official @dotnet at dotnet.social if there’s no relationship?
Because they’d need some instance regardless, and that one is as good a fit as it gets?
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 @atomicpoet @chucker @dotnet @fediversenews Maybe the person who runs the server created the account as a placeholder for the .NET Foundation community team to use when they wanted it.  @ramsey @chucker @dotnet @fediversenews Maybe. But zero affiliation when the official account lives there?  @atomicpoet @ramsey @dotnet @fediversenews the affiliation probably goes as far as “person who runs the account works at MS and got the approval to use it ‘officially’” @atomicpoet @chucker @dotnet @fediversenews I think you’re over-sensationalizing something that’s not very sensational. @atomicpoet @ramsey @chucker @dotnet @fediversenews Maybe I missed this along the way, but do we know for sure that the person who registered the domain is any way affiliated with Microsoft? Lots of zero-Microsoft-affiliation companies use .NET Edit: Ah gotcha, the verified account being on that server  @Robworks @atomicpoet @ramsey @chucker @dotnet @fediversenews considering it's now verified to a Microsoft.com page, if it's not Microsoft instance, they're still using it in an official capacity. The domain info is "redacted for privacy" so we don't know who owns the domain, but the account is being used by a Microsoft team. @chucker @atomicpoet @dotnet @fediversenews Yes, this is what happened. I'm on the team. We've been posting from personal accounts for a while and wanted to set up a team account, and joined on an established community server. We've had Twitter accounts for years (dotnet, aspnet, etc.) and don't own the Twitter server, either. Flattering to hear we're smart enough to plan that many months ahead, though! @jongalloway @chucker @dotnet @fediversenews No one’s ever claimed you owned Twitter. But how is there no affiliation with dotnet.social? Explain that. @atomicpoet The point was that we have team accounts on social networks we don't own. Other teammates have chatted with the dotnet.social admin (I think to ask if it was cool to join the server). You can read more about the server in its about link. If you're certain it's some kind of conspiracy, I'm not going to try to dissuade you, it sounds very exciting and I don't want to spoil the fun. In the history of rock and roll major labels were happy to colonize a new market with a "brand x" approach to distance themselves from potentially politically risky ventures. It's not like people haven't been watching big capitals playbook for a minute and seen a similar schtick elsewhere in industry. @jongalloway @atomicpoet Hey Jon, how is Bill Gates doing? Tell him I'm ready to spin up mastodon.microsoft.com for you guys 😄 @jongalloway to be honest, it's only a joke until it becomes true in the future due to improved federation protocols @atomicpoet has a good vision about what is coming because he sees the inherent value in the overall community, but those times are yet to come @ricardo @atomicpoet Hey, I'd love to see it. I'm cautiously optimistic about social media pivoting from perversely optimized content engagement farms to open protocols. I was a big fan of RSS, OpenID, open web, and protocols over platforms long before I worked for Microsoft. I don't have any info about any bigco strategies right now, I'm on a small team that wants to share blog post and stuff. But I'd love to see a resurgence of decentralized media. @ricardo @atomicpoet Obviously Microsoft brings some baggage into conversations about open source and open protocols. That's expected. But I'm hopeful that this can both be a positive step, including offering an alternative to those who want to stay connected but get off twitter and in helping show some momentum to other teams who want to get on Mastodon. @ricardo @atomicpoet Sorry if I was a bit snarky earlier. I honestly wish there was a big plan, but there's none that I know of. I'm trying to move things forward by getting people I work with to just get started sharing here more. @jongalloway I understand perfectly there is no foul play by your part or by any team at your company for trying to get into the Mastodon social nets: I recognize you are driven by healthy community feedback and you need to create channels to get it in a way or another. The functional dependencies necessary to execute such masterminded conspiracy are not here yet; @atomicpoet brings valid points that can become very real in the future but not at the moment and I can explain why and how... @jongalloway @atomicpoet there are conflicts going on at executive levels regarding the influence of bigtech and social platforms upon society; those problems are being treated at supranational levels at this right moment: https://news.un.org/en/story/2023/02/1133827 But those problems are above all computational problems of decentralization/centralization that need to be objectively solved at protocol levels: that's why there is a current demand for things like https://blueskyweb.xyz/ @jongalloway @atomicpoet so while those problems are not solved, bigtech executives can't mastermind things like Mastodon takeovers because they can easily backfire |
@chucker @dotnet @fediversenews While they said nothing for 5 months? Why all the quiet? As I said, I’m skeptical. Big multinational companies don’t do things without strategy.