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Adobe Gets Bullied Off Bluesky

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Submitted ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩ by ⁨ButtonMcLemming@lemmy.world⁩ to ⁨technology@lemmy.world⁩

https://futurism.com/adobe-bullied-bluesky

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  • PunkRockSportsFan@fanaticus.social ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

    Some brilliant people invented photoshop

    It was a good product but expensive

    Some asshole coke head CEO decided to make it more expensive and worse.

    Fuck adobe.

    GIMP 3 FTW

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    • nokturne213@sopuli.xyz ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

      And they bought Macromedia’s suite and destroyed it.

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      • lowspeedchase@lemmy.dbzer0.com ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

        I miss macromedia flash so bad, actionscript for life

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      • shyguyblue@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

        RIP Fireworks…

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      • Wimster@lemmy.wtf ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

        That’s what big tech companies do, they buy small and promissing companies they think that once can become a competitor and then… destroy it. The young startups just take the money and can retire early.

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      • rob_t_firefly@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

        And they bought Cool Edit and destroyed it.

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      • Xerxos@lemmy.ml ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

        And they bought Paintshop pro and destroyed it

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      • rotkehle@feddit.org ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago
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    • commander@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

      GIMP 3, Krita, Darktable, Inkscape, Kdenlive

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      • pelespirit@sh.itjust.works ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

        Blender

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      • boredtortoise@lemm.ee ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

        Photopea, Shotcut

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      • kazerniel@lemmy.world ⁨5⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

        if you poke around graphic design as a hobby, these might be fine, but not for professional use from what I’ve read :/

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    • MangoCats@feddit.it ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

      I (distantly) knew an indie software developer who was putting up a pretty good Photoshop alternative in 1996: ONE GUY alone in his bedroom was making a decent living selling a Photoshop alternative that he wrote himself. And he wasn’t exactly a super-wunderkind coder, just a guy who knew the photo manipulation space well enough to get enough customers to float selling his software for a few years - in direct competition with Photoshop.

      Adobe isn’t selling magic dust ground from precious gemstones by thousands of artisans. They had a decent product that they marketed the hell out of and eventually got overly greedy.

      GIMP, Krita, and many others are right up there if you haven’t been sucked into the Adobe addiction vortex.

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      • peoplebeproblems@midwest.social ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

        Krita is awesome with a drawing pad

        And I’m not like even good at doing anything

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      • Scrollone@feddit.it ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

        I use GIMP, but you can’t compare it to Photoshop. GIMP has a horrible GUI and it has very strange design choices.

        The Affinity suite is comparable to Photoshop, but it’s a paid product.

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    • PerogiBoi@lemmy.ca ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

      Photopea represent

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      • Sixtyforce@sh.itjust.works ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

        Affinity Photo for me!

        I’d prefer GOSS but…GIMP ain’t it.

        Have used Photopea is a bind in the past, it’s also pretty good especially the clone GUI.

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      • ThePowerOfGeek@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

        Krita is my graphics app of choice these days. But there are many alternatives that are great (like Gimp and Photopea).

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    • SethTaylor@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

      I still remember when they bought Macromedia Flash and all my animator friends and I simply couldn’t stand Adobe Flash CS3 or whatever it was called. It used more resources, crashed more often and didn’t exactly bring anything revolutionary to the table in terms of new functions.

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    • Manticore@lemmy.nz ⁨5⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

      I use Affinity Suite for work. Paid for it once, have it forever. Free updates until new editions, which are discounted if you 9wn an older edition.

      It doesn’t have AI content generation, but it does a few things Adobe doesn’t - like being able to use Photo and Designer from INSIDE Publisher, seamless like its a single program!

      Affinity Photo for Photos hope, Designer for Illustrator, and Publisher for InDesign. That’s all I need as a professional

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      • muusemuuse@lemm.ee ⁨5⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

        I have some artist friends who saw the writing on the wall after Adobe told Apple to fuck off with the iPad and Affinity said hold my beer. One owns her own publishing company as if a few years ago all new projects were Adobe-free workflows. She still has Adobe but will only use it for older shit that might still need something later. Going forward, she (and therefore her entire operation) are fucking done with Adobe. Another friend learned both so he could adapt to whatever the market has in store for him and since the market sucks for artists he’s going freelance too and has said absolutely no to Adobe.

        Adobe is officially legacy software. Vendor lock in won’t save it as the creatives don’t need industry titans to survive.

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    • jackalope@lemmy.ml ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

      Gimp sucks. Krita is way better.

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      • fmstrat@lemmy.nowsci.com ⁨5⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

        They have different purposes.

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    • rustyfish@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

      I feel like I should have switched to GIMP a decade ago.

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      • Roopappy@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

        The best time to switch was 10 years ago. The second best time to switch is right now.

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    • darklamer@lemmy.dbzer0.com ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

      Some brilliant people invented photoshop

      So the real question is whether Photoshop might ever have become successful, if Adobe hadn’t bought it.

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      • PunkRockSportsFan@fanaticus.social ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

        It sure is.

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    • fmstrat@lemmy.nowsci.com ⁨5⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

      Big GIMP fan. That being said, Adobe needs to start promoting some of their actually good stuff, like their investment in the open C2PA spec for proving content authenticity, vs constant AI crap that is the exact opposite.

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    • Cocodapuf@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

      Ok, so I’ve tried gimp in the past, but had a hard time with it. Honestly, my Photoshop skills are mostly self taught (and not all that impressive), but that’s the interface I know. How similar to Photoshop can one make the interface in gimp these days? Because that’s probably my biggest hurdle.

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      • PunkRockSportsFan@fanaticus.social ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

        Gimp is a little steeper learning curve but if you already know photoshop it’s not that bad.

        The tricky thing is knowing what to do when you get stuck. Luckily they wrote a manual that assumes you’re only reading the manual because you got stuck and you’re so frustrated you’re actually reading the manual.

        Gimp3 just launched and it’s really nice.

        And free.

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      • Matriks404@lemmy.world ⁨5⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

        Check out PhotoGimp

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    • Gigasser@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

      Bluesky has a lot of artists. Posting this video here: youtu.be/I4mdMMu-3fc

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  • slacktoid@lemmy.ml ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

    We should all be bullying companies more… Less bullying people and more bullying companies and orgs!!

    Yes people make up a company blah blah blah… Don’t care. Just don’t bully the people working there.

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    • SpicyColdFartChamber@lemm.ee ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

      And billionaires, especially the Nazis variety.

      I quite enjoyed Elon getting bullied over POE2 stream.

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      • slacktoid@lemmy.ml ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

        Oh Nazis deserve to just be punched (nonstop).

        You heard the time Elon was told to go back to Africa. That was hilarious.

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      • Ilovethebomb@lemm.ee ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

        Followed by his Starlink connection dropping out.

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      • Cocodapuf@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

        So, cyberbullying and toxic gamer communities are very much a thing and definitely a problem, but I have to admit, that story really did make day… I laughed for a while, I shared it with my neighbors, it’s still fucking funny!

        You know, the thing is… the whole mess was entirely Elon’s fault. If he just wanted an escape from his stressful life, he could totally just play the game and it would work out fine for him. But because he felt the narcissistic need to live stream it (because he apparently desperately needs others to tell him how awesome he is), he got his stupid face kicked into the mud. And that’s really on him…

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      • barneypiccolo@lemm.ee ⁨5⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

        Bullying a bully is not bullying.

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    • yourgodlucifer@sh.itjust.works ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

      Every company I’ve ever worked for deserves to be bullied.

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    • Lyra_Lycan@lemmy.blahaj.zone ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

      The leadership (is supposed to) represent the people, the people do not represent the leadership. Israelis do not represent the Israeli government. Employees of a Meta subsidiary do not represent Meta, Facebook, or Zuckerberg. Don’t attack McDonald’s employees because the burger is more expensive, YouTube employees because the content preys on children or residents/soldiers of a country because the government decides to mobilise its army against another community. Employees are just victims of capitalism, just working there because they must, irrespective of politics.

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      • slacktoid@lemmy.ml ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

        Well yeah I said leave the people working there alone and target the corp or org. And my reasons are what you just outlined in great detail. They are victims of capitalism.

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    • zarkanian@sh.itjust.works ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

      Just don’t bully the people working there.

      Not even if they’re C-suite?

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      • JargonWagon@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

        Key word is “working” people. C-Suite don’t work, just tell others to work.

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      • slacktoid@lemmy.ml ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

        They aren’t people, they are demons. So my rule still stands 🤣

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    • Skellysgirl@lemm.ee ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

      Who do you think should be next?

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      • slacktoid@lemmy.ml ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

        Boycott all shitty companies… We make a list and we keep adding shitty companies to the list and present a list of alternatives.

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  • infeeeee@lemm.ee ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

    A top reply was posted on another lemmy community:

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    lemmy.world/post/27989752

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    • thanksforallthefish@literature.cafe ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

      That’s weird. The bluesky links in the article work fine for me, and I don’t have a bluesky account.

      Ahh hang on, this one doesn’t work but all the rest do

      bsky.app/profile/…/3lmdz2tu6xk2x

      Ahh here we go: it’s a user made setting not a bluesky one

      “Sign-in Required This user has requested that their content only be shown to signed-in users. This label was applied by the author.”

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      • SatyrSack@feddit.org ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

        Ahh here we go: it’s a user made setting not a bluesky one"

        Sign-in Required This user has requested that their content only be shown to signed-in users. This label was applied by the author."

        Why would a user choose to enable that? Would that make it less likely to be scraped by a not?

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    • finitebanjo@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

      TBH it’s better journalism to include the link, but they could do both.

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      • Zykino@programming.dev ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

        Source can be destroyed. An alternative screenshoot backup/proof is good measure. Especially in web its better to not depend on an outside server.

        Like if they close (or some billionaire buy them and requires an account for everything), your content becomes worthless.

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    • murmelade@lemmy.ml ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

      Bleets?

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    • lmmarsano@lemmynsfw.com ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

      I can’t see any screenshots

      how lazy is this “journalism” where they don’t copy the images

      Images of web content usually break accessibility (implicit ableism) unless alt text is provided, which really amounts to a poor substitute for embedding content, block quoting, or linking to source (what the web was made for), where no alt text is needed because the actual text is there.

      Stop breaking accessibility: oppose inaccessible screenshots of accessible content.

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    • glowing_hans@sopuli.xyz ⁨5⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

      Not you. take CURSE OF RA [7 incromprehensible egyptian hyroglyphs]

      Best reply to a greeting by Adobe

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  • nokturne213@sopuli.xyz ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

    Image

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    • iAmTheTot@sh.itjust.works ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

      Honestly nah, there are lots of other good options. Support the devs and people fueling real creativity rather than staying in Adobe’s ecosystem, paid or not.

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    • IndustryStandard@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

      Top meme

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    • someguy3@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

      Had me at the first 1/10th.

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    • Mossheart@lemmy.ca ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

      Any Lightroom classic alternative?

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  • cupcakezealot@lemmy.blahaj.zone ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

    adobe will charge you $20 a month to read their skeets then charge a $100 cancellation fee if you want to stop following them.

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    • jsomae@lemmy.ml ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

      what are skeets

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    • peteyestee@feddit.org ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

      It’s $20 for the readers bundle, $1289 per year if you want to see photos and comment.

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  • cley_faye@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

    They started it by pretending to want to connect with artists.

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    • Ledericas@lemm.ee ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

      by charging them alot for using thier services.

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  • cupcakezealot@lemmy.blahaj.zone ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

    i like how i didn’t even know they were on bsky because they’re already added to the The Great AI/NFT/CRYPTO Cull blocklist.

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    • WhyJiffie@sh.itjust.works ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

      great, cant view it because it wants me to log in…

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  • _stranger_@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

    Image

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  • Muehe@lemmy.ml ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

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    I see you there! Shill baby, shill!

    Video Source on Bluesky

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    • grrgyle@slrpnk.net ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

      #adobyephotoslop

      Roffflllll

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  • Sunshine@lemmy.ca ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

    Same thing happened with Proton.

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  • WhatSay@slrpnk.net ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

    These days, bullying is used for good.

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  • Mwa@lemm.ee ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

    Greatjob Bluesky, One less Adobe monopoly

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  • Sixtyforce@sh.itjust.works ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

    I know Curse of Ra will get old if it isn’t already for some, but it’s my favorite stupid meme currently.

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  • SethTaylor@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

    I’ve replaced my Adobe Audition with Reaper. I do recommend it

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  • kepix@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

    im still rockin a cs6 version. works fine on w11ltsc.

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  • Kowowow@lemmy.ca ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

    “So much for the tolerant left”

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  • AustralianSimon@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

    I know Adobe is a dick of a company but all this event shows is how toxic Bluesky is. Seems the toxicity joined them from X.

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  • blixtuwu@lemmy.blahaj.zone ⁨5⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

    I was so happy to help in ensuring it ocurred

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  • Eat_Your_Paisley@lemm.ee ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

    Can’t think of a more deserving company

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  • Ulrich@feddit.org ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

    Per screenshots of the “skeet,” as folks on the butterfly app are wont to call their posts

    What the fuck is this word salad?

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  • glowing_hans@sopuli.xyz ⁨5⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

    Why dont they get bullied on X as well?

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  • redwattlebird@lemmings.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

    Time to test out Armor Paint this weekend then.

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  • OverTheFiniteSun@lemmy.ca ⁨5⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

    Deserved. Fuck Adobe!

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  • Skellysgirl@lemm.ee ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

    Thanks just spent a lot tow time over telling Adobe where to go. Great way to vent. Whose next?

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  • Arkouda@lemmy.ca ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

    If one isn’t a total nutcase who can pass every left wing social purity test ever devised you will be bullied off of Bluesky. Just like if you cannot do the same in reverse with right wing purity tests on Twitter.

    Adobe sucks, but Bluesky is trash as well. Which should have been expected considering it is a Twitter clone.

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  • Litebit@lemmy.world ⁨5⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

    What would be a good alternative to Adobe After Effects ? Something that works in the same way.

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  • MITM0@lemmy.world ⁨5⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

    Is it possible to learn such sorcery ?

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  • onyxjet@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

    From being digitally issued the “curse of RA”

    Lmao

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  • Fingolfinz@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

    Hell yeah, they deserve it.

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  • Wimster@europe.pub ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

    Ooooo nostalgia. Who remembers the time of Aldus Freehand and Aldus Pagemaker, Quark XPress and Ventura Publisher. Those where the days :-) 😍

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