neatchee

@neatchee@piefed.social

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Working as intended. Their goal is not a payday.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  There is a corporate friendly way to handle this discussion. Here, I’ll even write it for you:

  “Hi [Team],

  Thanks for reaching out again about this issue.

  I have made two previous attempts to provide guidance on this matter, but my recommendation was dismissed without appropriate consideration due to first-impression aesthetics of a product that is provided for free by a small team of dedicated nerds.

  I attempted to explain that a corporate-friendly paid version exists but never got that far in our conversation due to your team’s outright dismissal of the product I know to be both effective and appropriate for your use case.

  Due to these circumstances, and your team’s apparent priorities, I recommend you pursue an expensive contract with CloudFlare.

  If you change your mind and would like to revisit this matter, I’m happy to set up a meeting to present the details.

  Best of luck,

  -Ek-Hou-VanBraai

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Sounds like you work with a bunch of short-sighted, judgemental simpletons who cannot look past initial aesthetics for a product that has nothing to do with aesthetics.

  Tbh I would run far the fuck away from that company if they can’t be bothered to sit down for a meeting where you explain that it’s an open-source project run by an extremely small team of nerds and that there is a commercial product available without the branding issues.

  Everything you’re describing about your employer/coworkers gives me giant red-flag warnings regarding their decision making process.

  Time to start looking for a new employer, or accept that they’re idiots and next time they ask about bots tell them “I’ve tried explaining this already but you dismissed me for silly reasons, so go pay for CloudFlare and stop bothering me”.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Instagram boss says users will be ‘overwhelmed’ with brand content in algorithm-free world⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  This says a lot more about their platform management than it does about the value of their algorithm

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Instagram boss says users will be ‘overwhelmed’ with brand content in algorithm-free world⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  Yeah the behavior they’re talking about is enabled by their algorithm. Without big brother curating how much of the content makes it to your feed, people just stop following spammy accounts.

  It’s presented as convenience ("we’ll manage that for you") but it’s actually manipulative ("we’ll tune it to exactly as much as you will tolerate")