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Microsoft gets tired of “Microslop,” bans the word on its Discord, then locks the server after backlash (www.windowslatest.com)
submitted 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago) by mesamunefire@piefed.social to c/technology@lemmy.world
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Microsoft’s aggressive AI push in Windows 11 through 2025 brought upon themselves the title Microslop. Unfortunately for the company, it’s everywhere on social media, and there isn’t a way to stop the spread, unless, of course, it’s their own Discord server.

Just for fun: https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/microslop/

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[–] Stefan_S_from_H@piefed.zip 115 points 1 month ago (9 children)

Why does Microsoft use Discord??

[–] mesamunefire@piefed.social 79 points 1 month ago (1 children)

Right! That makes it funnier in my opinion. Cause they have teams.

[–] Petter1@discuss.tchncs.de 14 points 1 month ago

You gotta keep competition in view

[–] testaccount372920@piefed.zip 41 points 1 month ago

I guess their own slop isn't good enough as a communication platform

[–] tabular@lemmy.world 17 points 1 month ago

It's where people are, sadly.

[–] pixxelkick@lemmy.world 15 points 1 month ago

They use Discord for community stuff, IE non employee interactions. People can join those communities to learn, they have several

Teams is used for internal employee chat.

[–] Reygle@lemmy.world 8 points 1 month ago

For the same reason they have a twitter account for sharing updates about outages. Because their own systems don't @#^ing work

[–] MadMadBunny@lemmy.ca 6 points 1 month ago

*Microslop.

[–] CosmoNova@lemmy.world 3 points 1 month ago

Did you mean Microslop and… actually, Discord doesn‘t even need a clever nickname.