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Angry, disappointed users react to Bluesky's upcoming blue check mark verification system (www.neowin.net)
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[–] blazeknave@lemmy.world 34 points 2 days ago (2 children)

To quote my well known journalist friend after switching from twitter "what's that? Oh, that open source stuff? Hahaha nah bruh, mastodon is silly"

[–] SwingingTheLamp@midwest.social 30 points 1 day ago (1 children)

Reminds me of a meeting my co-worker and I had with the IT staff of a company that is a customer using research instruments in our facility. The meeting was to ask us to enable data synchronization through SharePoint. (We're a Linux shop.) We asked what the issue was with getting their data files with SFTP. They said, "It's open source."

Then, a few beats of silence as it sinks in for us that there is no next step in the chain of logic. That is the totality of their objection.

[–] joel_feila@lemmy.world 12 points 1 day ago (1 children)

Ok so they knew enough about software to use open source correctly in a sentence, but could not even list one reason why they didn't want to use it.

[–] lagoon8622@sh.itjust.works 7 points 1 day ago

We had to fight tooth and nail to get even a few of us able to use Ubuntu on our development machines (even though 90% of our servers are Ubuntu). The old heads in IT were like, "Uhh that open-source stuff? We use Windows for security". Like wtf?? Lack of cognitive dissonance much? They are completely brainwashed by the old Microsoft FUD

[–] FriendBesto@lemmy.ml 2 points 1 day ago

Normies will not go on Mastodon.