Louis Ingenthron @LouisIngenthron@qoto.org

@styx31 @atomicpoet @dotnet Occam's Razor strikes again!

@jupiter_rowland Sure, but now every point you just made has been reversed.
There are lots of .NET developers on Masto now.
Microsoft has proved themselves to be much more developer friendly than any of those other examples.
Steve Ballmer's been out for almost a *decade* now.
C# and .NET are fully cross-compatible now.
GitHub is beloved by developers of all OSes and is a beacon of Microsoft's commitment to open source.

I agree Microsoft's not always been the good guy. But they've been doing the right thing for a good long while now, and they deserve the little bit of trust that's bought them.

@highvizghilliesuit @timelordiroh @atomicpoet @pixelfed You mean, could a company do to Mastodon what Google did to email?

Yes, it's possible. But private email servers/masto instances will still exist.

@highvizghilliesuit Yes. For example, my server has Quote Tooting.

@atomicpoet If you want to continue this conversation, try replying to what I actually wrote instead of this nonsense argument you imagined me saying.

@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.