You know how Social they are in the #FreeWebHosting world called #SocialMedia to #CopyThat from others in the #FreeWebHosting industry? Look no further than the large #culture at these companies and what got approved to copy! That's just the industry with a slight twist, renaming, nay, just steal it. Image how those other rights holders who are *definitely* going to defend their mark/tm/sm/etc because #Legal demanded they do so or lose the ability to defend it? ๐จโโ๏ธ๐ฉโโ๏ธโ๏ธ
This above exercise is kinda like watching a slow speed train crash in #branding but over 1+ year of #brandingfails, #PR101 , #MBA101 , #moderation, #administration, #DevOps, #infosec, etc #fails all at the same time with a twist of #MLM 'schemes' and enticement to 'pay' schemes trying to build something that branding people 20+ years ago said and told the guy was Abad idea name wise but... this just seems to just drive the power users away across a bunch of different geo areas and industries. The removal and restricting the platform for the utility it use to be ( #OpenWeb to #ClosedWebSortaOnePost ) in the public sphere just hits peoples already stretched thin budgets comms wise. ๐ซ๐โ Public Utility or #PublicSquare without comments shown for CONTEXT, init? What have you got to hide, init? โ๐๐ซ๐๐
I mean I get that the people at the company there give their feedback to their manager and managers manager etc, etc, but in the end get over ruled and wot not but... Daymmnn. ๐๐ฟ๐ฟ๐ฟ๐ฟ
This is for sure a GREAT case study like #Meta's in similar areas to be reflected elsewhere in the market to be fed into the 'don't do this' category but the flip side is 'this generates #FREE #media coverage' so keep that also in mind. ๐จโ๐ป๐ฉโ๐ป๐ป๐ฅ๏ธ๐จโ๐ป๐ฉโ๐ป๐ฅ๏ธ๐ฐ๐๏ธ๐ก๐ฐ๏ธ๐บ
From a project management perspective this just reeks of a reactionary type top down ๐ฉ type dictated 'get it done at any cost type -ism' and the poor hostages left there are #hardcore stuck trying to scramble to fix it. But this is not that surprising after 80% - 90% of the people who worked there got laid off or quit, init? Less distinguished engineers left means not many that understand how 'the platform' works per sรฉ. This does make some interesting breakages at scale occur I have noticed though. #analytics especially. Keep notes on the shifting types of content and industries affected by showing their #branding neXt to specific other types of brandings, ya know. ๐ฉ๐ณ๐๐