Adobe's Employees Are Just As Upset at the Company As Its Users: Report ( petapixel.com )

Adobe’s employees are typically of the same opinion of the company as its users, having internally already expressed concern that AI could kill the jobs of their customers. That continued this week in internal discussions, where exasperated employees implored leadership to not let it be the “evil” company customers think it is. 

This past week, Adobe became the subject of a public relations firestorm after it pushed an update to its terms of service that many users saw at best as overly aggressive and at worst as a rights grab. Adobe quickly clarified it isn’t spying on users and even promised to go back and adjust its terms of service in response. 

For many though, this was not enough, and online discourse surrounding Adobe continues to be mostly negative. According to internal Slack discussions seen by Business Insider, as before, Adobe’s employees seem to be siding with users and are actively complaining about Adobe’s poor communications and inability to learn from past mistakes.

mojofrododojo ,

Same with Unity's devs. It sucks to watch your life's work being flushed down the drain for stupid grasping at shitty, random fads.

Churbleyimyam ,

Imagine what projects like GIMP, Krita, Inkscape, Scribus etc could do with a fraction of monthly revenue of Adobe.

uis ,
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You mean Blender?

uis ,
@uis@lemm.ee avatar

I don't think there any proprietary 3d software, where you can just call dev and he will make it 10 times faster.

Resol ,
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You know how fucked up your company is when even your employees are mad at you.

Croquette ,

It's always like that. When the only goal is more growth, the C-Suite will fuck everyone and anything over.

But people gotta eat and be homed, so that won't change soon.

deadbeef79000 ,

Remember: in most cases the c-suite consider you merely as resources(human) a source of labour.

To them employees are things.

Customers are just a revenue source, they are also just things.

CEO's are just chasing their next quarterly performance bonus.

throws_lemy ,
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Adobe is an evil company that will do whatever it takes to F its users,” one employee wrote, echoing sentiments

Microsoft : first time?

TheFeatureCreature ,
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Good time to drop a reminder that Affinity's tools are 50% off right now and are buy-once software.

singularity ,

And they are a really great alternative!

Veraxus ,

...for now.

  • See above convo about acquisition by Canva.
IntheTreetop ,
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Unfortunately, they were also recently acquired by Canva. It may be all right for the time being, but I wouldn't throw my full weight behind them anymore.

Pechente ,

Yeah same. I used to recommend them whole heartedly but now Im afraid they will go downhill

k_rol ,

I guess I'm out of the loop, what's wrong with Canva?

dustyData ,

Canva is an aggressively for profit company. They use the freemium model to manipulate users into FOMO, pay-walling the actually useful parts of their product offering. They are an unicorn startup from Australia. They want to engorge the entirety of the design and office market all at once, thus have expanded fast but entirely on the basis of venture capitalism and stock trading. They, as far as I can recall, are not entirely profitable yet*. This means that their model is incompatible with Affinity's model and brings about the fear that they will enshittify Affinity very soon in order to either try to promote their desired monopoly or to flow in some short-term profits.

*: They are profitable, but still their model is embrace, extend, extinguish, just like MS. And subscription based monetization is still icky and contrary to Affinity's original vision.

k_rol ,

Wow ok thanks for the explanation, I had no idea. Maybe I should look for an alternative, if there is still one.

TheFeatureCreature ,
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You're not wrong! But at least for now I got a decent PS alternative for $45. We'll see how things go.

manos_de_papel ,

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    MarcRnt ,

    Time to donate and switch to Gimp?

    JustARaccoon ,

    Well the good thing about their licensing is that you can buy a version and stick with it in spite of whatever the parent company does, and you're not banned from using older versions like with Adobe's T&Cs

    autonomoususer ,

    They control it, not us. It fails to include a libre software license text file. Some people never learn. 🤡

    nilzen ,

    Adobe has been exploiuting users for years. they are invasive, they already do wayy more snooping in your data than they ever should. I stopppeed using them years ago and always recommend for others to do so. they don't deserve your money and especially don't deserve even one MB of your data.

    ton618 ,

    Which products do you use instead?

    7355608 ,

    Saw this in one of the Linux forums. I hope its useful.https://lemmy.world/pictrs/image/a653e91c-c42f-45b6-b813-46a0bab5c6e0.jpeg

    sugar_in_your_tea ,

    Cool, then strike.

    catloaf ,

    I doubt they're unionized. A strike without a union is just refusing to do your job.

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