Cosmic Cleric

I’m aware of HDR, but what is Game Color (besides the obviousness of the two words, individually)?

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I really doubt they’re wasting time astroturfing a Linux community on Lemmy.

A bots (not human) time is very easy to waste, and if your product is having problems right now, one of the first things corporations would do to protect their profits is to try to reshape the narrative away from the problems, from the negative final spotlight on your product.

And finally, as I’ve linked before in this conversation, Microsoft has a long history of using FUD.

You’re not going to convince hardcore devotees with a meme.

They’re not directed just towards the ‘hardcore the devotees’, they’re also directed at the person who’s considering moving, who’s trying to do some research about it, and does searching about it, and then finds the memes/communities.

Stopping potential switchers before they switch is a powerful thing to do to preserve your products/profits.

And if you do these memes/messages often, and if they send a certain message/narrative, you would definitely introduce FUD into the people who would consider moving to Linux.

Pay attention to the meta.

That’s what we call a conspiracy theory

Why? You honestly don’t believe that corporations never try to manipulate the narrative/message for their benefit/profit?

Early Microsoft was well known for wielding the FUD factor.

Ah, how could I have forgotten the legion of MSFT contract employees scouring… fucking… furaffinity for that sweet, delectable anti-Linux propaganda lmao

Because having bots backed by AI and a preset list of sites/forums to post to would be way too much of an effort and impossible to automate/do, right? /s

(And for the record, mentioning ‘bots’ for the second time now.)

Because Microsoft cares so much about an 18.6K-member community called “linuxmemes” on a small federated Reddit alternative known for being filled with die-hard Linux fans and furries?

The company a corporation would hire to do that sort of thing would use a shotgun approach to the redirection postings. With bots it would be easy for them to do.

When I see these kind of posts I can’t help but think that maybe they’re being made by people who could be astroturfing for another company and it’s OS, in a negative way, to redirect the narrative.

The problem with that meme comic is that it doesn’t state which distro the fox was using, as far as the level of supported it requires.

Everyone who uses Linux knows that there are some distros that require more ‘tender loving care’ by their users than others.