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Liz Upton, Raspberry Pi’s cofounder and chief marketing officer, told BuzzFeed she believes that much of the issue stems not from the hiring of the former police officer who admitted to using Raspberry Pis for covert surveillance, but instead from a picture the account posted to Mastodon a day earlier showing pigs in blankets. “We didn’t put a content warning on it, because we don’t put a content warning on meat,” Upton said. “There were quite a few people who tried to start dogpiling on that.” She also claimed that part of the vitriolic response could be because Raspberry Pi is struggling with supply chain difficulties at present, and people “were already cross.” “I think what we’re looking at is a dogpile that’s being organized somewhere,” Upton said. “There’s obviously a Discord or a forum somewhere.”

The Computer Company Raspberry Pi Hired An Ex-Cop, And People Are Pissed

“I think what we’re looking at is a dogpile that’s being organized somewhere,” a Raspberry Pi cofounder told BuzzFeed News.
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clar fon
clar fon
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where's the satire
ah yes, it's the woke vegans who are after us, not literally everyone who hates cops
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The research fairy
The research fairy
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Wait, they don't believe that us hating cops is actually what it's like on Fedi

They still don't get that?

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Andrew
Andrew
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@researchfairy if only they'd put a "hog" cw on there, they'd have been the post popular account on the network. you know. until...
@The research fairy
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Greg Burrell 🦞🚴🥔
Greg Burrell 🦞🚴🥔
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Of course, it must be a coordinated attack! It can't possibly be that they did a shitty thing and responded like assholes when they were called out. No, it's the users who are wrong.
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artsyhonker / Kathryn
artsyhonker / Kathryn
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silly, cops,
I initially read "pigs in blankets" here as, um, cops. In blankets.
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Martin Kelly
Martin Kelly
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I very rarely see a defence so stupid it makes me laugh but this cleared that barrier easily. No, clown. It’s because you make bad hires and can’t read
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Off On One
Off On One
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@researchfairy Yeah I dunno

Like I don't want to dismiss any legit shitty experiences they've had but if their take away from half of fedi blocking them because of their response to being criticised for hiring a cop is 'it was because we didn't content warn the sausage'...

@The research fairy
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Off On One
Off On One
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@hugo made me do it

Blackletter calligraphy in red ink reading 'We didn't put a content warning on it, because we don't put a content warning on meat." There's a decorative leafy border down the left.
@Hugo Gameiro
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Grunge Fox
Grunge Fox
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RPi drama

They were literally proud of the fact that this guy was spying on people with their devices, but yeah, surely the outrage was about not putting CW on photos of pigs LMAO

Although, I agree, the outrage was about a pig, but not the one they're thinking of

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Off On One
Off On One
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@justanna ❤ ❤
@Anna
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Off On One
Off On One
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@Tattooed_mummy @hugo They're imaginary sausages, just like the imaginary reasoning in the article
@Hugo Gameiro @Tattooed_Mummy
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Annoyed_The_Void™ 🐚
Annoyed_The_Void™ 🐚
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Meta - Death of Pi
Did you catch that "Winston Smith" jackass yesterday yelling about Libertarians and Putin, and pretty much everything on the planet that could be a problem here other than RPi's shit behavior itself?
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Annoyed_The_Void™ 🐚
Annoyed_The_Void™ 🐚
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Meta - Death of Pi
I blocked him after his oh-so-subtle inference that I am a chud or some shit. It's somewhere in this hashtag. Bring along your air-freshener.
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The research fairy
The research fairy
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Yeah, on second thought I'm deleting those posts because—extremely shitty ambiguous journalism aside—I don't want to encourage people doing the "but did it really happen?" thing to individuals who experience harassment
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Erik
Erik
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I can't decide if it's weirder to already genuinely have had like a policy that "we don't content warning meat" or to pretend on the fly that you totally had established that just to make this flimsy excuse.
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Off On One
Off On One
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raspberryPi drama
@fluffyfied goad = provoke :) In this case, posting something to initiate a specific kind of response that you want to take action on (provoking the people who are anti-cop to make themselves known so that Pi could block them, for example)
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Off On One
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raspberryPi drama
@fluffyfied as for why it works on Twitter but not here - on Twitter an account can behave shittily and block people at an individual level and there's not much the individual can do about it. On fedi, that went so bad for them it ended up with them doing the rounds on the fediblock hashtag as they're on their own instance.
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Off On One
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raspberryPi drama
@fluffyfied :D :D
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@mindfog 😂😂😂 yep
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Crab With Knife
Crab With Knife
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guys, it wasn't me it was, uh, the content warning crusaders! Yeah, that's why we got all this bad press. My actions have nothing to do with it.
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Erika
Erika
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ok now that's just silly... she's... being silly on purpose, right? Like... she doesn't actually believe that? Been holding in the farts too long they went to her head?
I cannot tell anymore.
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knightly
knightly
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raspberryPi drama

@fluffyfied
To goad is to provoke or annoy someone or something with the goal of triggering a reaction.

Twitter's home feed algorithm promotes posts and accounts that have more engagement, and due to the lack of moderation one of the easiest ways to create engagement is via provoking controversy.
RPi seems to have tried to import these lessons to Mastodon, not realizing that the fediverse's chronological timeline and active moderation does not reward provocation.

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Rob Pomeroy
Rob Pomeroy
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"We have a policy that we are never wrong."

Pure narcissism. Or perhaps Hanlon's Razor.

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