I for one would love for @Raspberry_Pi to walk back from the cliff today, if only because the Pi Pico is the only way I’m going to be able to ship the first Open Books, and I’d love for that to be a positive association in people’s minds instead of a negative one.
@joeycastillo @Raspberry_Pi Agreed. I have several #RaspberryPiPico synth & keyboard projects on deck and I've already got "oh is this for the spy cops?" sorts of comments about them. Makes me not want to finish them, honestly
@todbot @joeycastillo @Raspberry_Pi@raspberrypi.social
Yikes; what did I miss??
@Blenster @todbot @joeycastillo it helped, I think that Make: did take some steps to explain (not reverse) their actions and did not respond combatively.
@joeycastillo @geekmomprojects @todbot @Blenster yeah, there are two things going on here. 1) hiring a surveillance specialist and bragging about it. 2) being a complete jerk to your customers and community. I’m personally more upset and confused at the second, but understand why people are so concerned with the first.
@geekmomprojects @Blenster @todbot @joeycastillo Also when another large community-oriented maker brand started mocking their customers with AI...
Is this a lesson everyone "too big to fail" has to learn at some point I wonder?
@diyelectromusic @geekmomprojects @Blenster @todbot @joeycastillo
As Phillip Torrone found out back in March this year, these social media pile-ons tend to take a life of their own if you fail to get on top of them early
@Blenster @todbot @joeycastillo @Raspberry_Pi thanks for asking. Apparently I've missed all of this too
@djweso @todbot @joeycastillo @Raspberry_Pi@raspberrypi.social I found some screenshots; their social media person is not running the account in a way that I'd recommend running a business account.
Might become one of the case studies I present when talking to folks about how to do social media for business correctly.
@Blenster @todbot @joeycastillo OMG, where to start... Though to me it feels like one of those controversies that resonates a great deal more with those on the other side of the pond. I did go through a similar squirmy time when Make: hopped on the blockchain bandwagon just as one of my articles was coming out. My takeaway from that experience on the bird site was that while highly vocal, the impact of social media followers on a small company is pretty minimal.