Gregory's Server@atomicpoet That server is not affiliated with Microsoft, it says so clearly:
".NET Community on Mastodon; not affiliated with Microsoft."
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 @atomicpoet @dotnet That account is affiliated, but not the server. You said: "Which means Microsoft is operating their own Mastodon community server." They are not running that server.   @atomicpoet @Ciantic @dotnet They joined a community server. They posted about it an hour ago and said so themselves, thanking the community member by handle who set up the instance. @Ciantic is correct. @LouisIngenthron @Ciantic @dotnet The owner of dotnet.social is @styx31. Guess who he works for? @LouisIngenthron @Ciantic @dotnet @styx31 @styx31@dotnet.social When an employee runs the server, and an official account lives there, I tend to think there’s a relationship.  @mike @atomicpoet @LouisIngenthron @Ciantic @dotnet Nice try 😁 And I am not an employee of Microsoft either. @atomicpoet @Ciantic @dotnet The admin @styx31 works for Microsoft Tech Group France which is sponsored by Microsoft. @user8e8f87c @atomicpoet @dotnet @styx31 Yeah it's cool either way. .NET community has run multiple weird efforts, they aren't that picky about who is doing the effort. Coziest was in the early .NET Core 1.0 days when they had some own hatched-together Slack alternative written in SignalR that eventually went unmaintained and was killed off. All core devs like @davidfowl I think were hanging around there before .NET Core 1.0 was released. @user8e8f87c @atomicpoet @Ciantic @dotnet Hello all! I don't "work" for Microsoft Tech Group: it's a non-profit organization (kind of microsoft user group) which regroup local communities in France (meetup groups), where we are all volunteers. Nothing fancy or malicious here. This server is a personal initiative. @styx31@dotnet@dotnet.social.social @user8e8f87c @atomicpoet @Ciantic @dotnet as long as the instance is sustainable, updated, fast, having meaningful discussions etc, that would be great. @atomicpoet I would make a joke and say that the real owner of the domain was squatting on it in hopes Microsoft would arrive, to make them post dumb stuff. Unfortunately, Microsoft has already done Tay, so reality is stranger than fiction  @Ciantic @atomicpoet Maybe a VS Code plugin, completely in Microsoft newspeak: "Collaborate online with your dev team like never before." Followed by pushing GitHub issue notification etc. over ActivityPub. @Ciantic @atomicpoet But look at the account @dotnet: Which I neither see as a good or bad thing. Just wanted to point it out :blobfoxdetective: |
@Ciantic Not so. Read what’s highlighted. @dotnet is the official handle of the .NET team at Microsoft.