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Microsoft gets tired of “Microslop,” bans the word on its Discord, then locks the server after backlash
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this post was submitted on 02 Mar 2026
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…Who would be in the Microsoft Discord? Why?
Wasn’t there some old internet saying that once megacorps join a social media platform en masse, it’s uncool? What happened to that?
Is this true anymore?
I feel like corporate astroturfing has gotten so intense that users are either oblivious, or get acclimated to it and keep using the platform. Because, you know, where else are you gonna go?
Diehard Windows fanboys exist and I'm sure they actually believe their voice in a corporate Discord server matters. Just have a look at the OnePlus community forums, it's comically how much they think the company would listen to anything they have to say
Oneplus did listen to the community during the Oneplus 1 and 2 era, but everything started going to shit slowly. Now they are just another soulless flagship churning factory
This, I was there when it happened.
They actually hired a few from our ranks (rom community) to work on Oxygen OS.
I myself received an Oppo find 7a for testing (Chinese version of what would become the one plus 1)
believe it or not there are microsoft fanboys so it doesn't surprise me there is a discord. You can also find A LOT of them on bluesky of all places where they seem to be worse than the "just use linux" people.
The Windows subreddit used to be one of the easiest to get banned from. If you made even the slightest hint that Windows wasn't perfect they'd kick you out. And it wasn't MS doing this: it was their fans.
Jesus fucking christ, proselyting for the majority OS for a corporation worth billions?
Hundreds of billions.
hundreds of billions are still billions
Hundreds of billions is a more accurate figure. You could've also said they're worth multiple dollars and had been correct.
Hundreds of billions are also thousands. Orders of magnitude matter.
And it's a ~3 Trillion dollar company, so...
I use to go to lan parties and the amount of fellating of microsoft shit was off the scale. I once heard someone getting shittalked for having an apple monitor hooked to their windows pc. But if you ask them for some tech help with a problem, they give you the most jank solution. Or they tell you to install some weird ass driver off a sketchy website. No wonder they have to use antivirues.
For a long time, I was platform agnostic and eventually I gave up on antivirus hopping and I realized that if you don't actually download weird shit or run shit without vetting it, you don't get viruses. I kept windows on its own partition and never granted it write access to anything else to be safe, but I never had a problem.
THANK YOU. in my 30+ years of computing I've never run any anti-virus on anything and surprise surprise I've never once had a system crash or corrupted from a virus, trojan, malware, whatever simply because I never downloaded shady shit. I've had people become visibly upset with me because I've said to people "you don't need anti-virus if you're smart about what you're doing" even people in the linux community have called it bullshit. it's not.
it just boggles my mind that people build their entire personality and devote themselves to multi-billion dollar companies like windows or simply platforms like Linux. I use Linux, I don't care if people use Windows and trust me if something went south with Linux or Microsoft massively improved Windows I'd honestly go back to it. I'm a fan of stuff that works. that's it.
Antiviruses also don't solve the problem of hardware failure. You should be backing up important data anyway. If you still some how got a virus, just reformat and restore.
yup that's way more important and easier. I have system configurations backed up to my private git repo, locally on an external drive, and offsite. then for important docs/files/etc both a local and offsite backup. all run via borg.
Yes. Discord has been uncool for a while.