A [Firefox, Chromium] extension that converts Microsoft to Microslop

Post by dmix » Tue, Mar 03, 2026, 5:15 PM UTC

zamadatix wrote: post #11

dmix wrote: post #5

All of this outrage over what was likely a single moderator on the Discord doing what moderators do.

The Discord portion of the "Microslop" story was just one of many knock-on effects of the outrage about Microsoft in general lately. E.g. this extension was last updated a month ago and there were discussions and articles before that about "Microslop" catching on in social media as early as a month before that https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46490908 It doesn't help Nadella has been pressing to move things beyon…

Post by dmix » Tue, Mar 03, 2026, 9:16 PM UTC

zamadatix wrote: post #13

dmix wrote: post #12

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Microsoft has always been awful for about two decades now. I'm just not particularly moved by a company policing their own niche Discord servers. Although if this is what gets people to finally stop using Microsoft products then maybe it's a good thing.

The outrage isn't about Microsoft continuing their general awfulness or what they did on their Discord server, it's about the consistently extremely poor AI (slop) pushes in all of their products. I doubt this is what will actually break the camel's back - but who knows :).