“BuT tHeY aRe A cHoKiNg HaZaRd”

So what’s the agreed-upon purpose of up- and down votes on Lemmy? Because I feel like the news of this clusterfuck of a bad business decision is technews-worthy and doesn’t deserve the downvotes.

I totally agree and I’m not saying FOSS is useless, quite the contrary. My only point was that articles like the above make it easy to frame the FOSS-hype as a nothingburger by being poorly researched, which is not what the movement needs.

Most of these listicle items are a decade old, at least the Munich one has failed. I’d also be surprised if the GDR picturesd in that map ditched Microsoft… I see so many accounts peddle their stupid AI aggregators here, it’s getting annoying.

This has become one of the major incentives of the scheme for staff; transferring to GendBuntu from a proprietary system means the staff member receives a new computer with a widescreen monitor.

Smart! What I wouldn’t do for new equipment…

And you already know they’re gonna autogenerate audio-ads and product placements in these summaries as soon as people start using them.

Hey! Nice concept, gut says yes, especially with the news the way it is. Have you gotten any data or done some market analysis? Are there other players like this in the market, how do they position themselves, how do they communicate and what’s their target audience? Then see if there’s space for you and your service. How is it different from theirs?

I guess it’ll all come down to HOW you market it, I’m sure there’s small to medium businesses interested in switching, but try to find both emotional and rational reasons for them to do so and see if you fill those needs.

Sure, owners will dislike Trumps policies, but what’ll make them change is more likely a) US services becoming unreliable and threatening their business model and b) FOSS/Made in EU becoming a big selling point for their customers.

Then your communication could go along these lines of: “Scared for your data and information safety? Losing sleep over the future of your company in unstable times?” as well as fomo: “Don’t miss out on the EU/FOSS hype train and gain an advantage over your competition!”

It’s on neither of their press platforms. This is either leaked, fake or maybe they retracted the news. Would be really cool though

Great, now that 50% of a video can be a direct call for genocide, does that at LEAST mean I can use ONE instance of a “bad” word or speak of “icky” things like death and drug abuse without being demonized?

Beep boop

Can’t wait for Google to AI-summarize AI-generated social media posts for artificial Google users created to hike ad prices. It’s gonna be wild

Which is such a shortsighted move because as soon as all the news portals close shop Google’s scraper will have nothing relevant to summarize and is gonna be shit.