Louis Ingenthron @LouisIngenthron@qoto.org

@atomicpoet Which has what exactly to do with lawyers signing off on the account? You're bouncing all over the place here.

@atomicpoet *What* is your point?

Lawyers probably signed off on creating Twitter accounts (because Twitter actually has an EULA, unlike dotnet.social). Does that mean that Microsoft is in cahoots with Twitter too?

@atomicpoet What do either of those things have to do with your attempt to establish a relationship between the server and the company?

@atomicpoet Or their marketing department tried to create an instance, saw how difficult it is to run on Windows, gave up, found a community instance already dedicated to their product run by an employee, reached out to him, and he was happy to have them, because of course he was if he was such a big fan that he started an instance dedicated to their product in the first place.

That's not only Occam's Razor here, but it's consistent with the story they've given.

And the unnecessary dig against my server isn't strengthening your argument; to the contrary.

@atomicpoet Mostly because Fediblock is an easily-manipulated relic that needs to go the way of the dinosaurs. Mastodon has outgrown it.

@atomicpoet Not all of it apparently. I regularly interact with developers on here and haven't heard a hint of anti-Microsoft sentiment.

There are plenty of us .NET developers on Mastodon.

And anyone who hates Microsoft is free to defederate from dotnet.social.

@atomicpoet @Ciantic @dotnet @styx31@mastodon.social Well, no, it's @styx31@dotnet.social, not @styx31@mastodon.social, those are two different accounts.

And do you think that servers owned privately by employees are property of their employers?

@atomicpoet Microsoft's developer network is extremely community-focused. This is absolutely inline with their past actions. There are hundreds of software packages available that use the .NET name as part of their branding, and Microsoft's lawyers have a history of going after none of them. Moreover, running an account instead of a server is the exact same way their marketing department works on every other social media, so why complicate things here unnecessarily?

Also, "blowback" from who or what?

I really think you're grasping at straws here.

@atomicpoet @dotnet @fediversenews What does the account being created months ago have to do with whether or not they're affiliated? I don't see where you're making that leap. It makes sense they'd want to claim the name they'd eventually use early, even if they weren't prepared to commit to engaging yet. That doesn't mean they're affiliated with the server.

And that's on top of the fact that they've now expressly said they are not affiliated with it. 🤦‍♂️

@atomicpoet @dotnet @fediversenews Why would they not? They can migrate any time if they need to, but this makes it easier for their marketing crew. Most brand accounts are just accounts, not whole servers.

@interfluidity I really wanted to write a tribal reply about how real libertarians actually are on the left on these issues, but then I realized that no real libertarians still call themselves "libertarians" because that word has been so completely co-opted by the far right trolls. It's sad, really.

@skrishna What exactly is propellant conditioning? Is it essentially just giving it time to settle to even out any unevenness in temp/density from the inflow?