What is "FUD"?
What is "FUD"?
People use it like everyone fucking has the innate knowledge of every acronym out there
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People use it like everyone fucking has the innate knowledge of every acronym out there
Or, you know, people use it like everyone fucking has the ability to use google.
Sometimes acronyms have more than one meaning, for example FPS are we talking about frames per second or first person shooter.
And sometimes bicycles are painted red.
"fear uncertainty and doubt" is a phrase I may have encountered once per year. Makes zero sense I have to Google shit all the time for a single use per year. I'm not going to remember something so utterly pointless and useless
So would you post once a year to the fediverse to find out instead?
The point was that the abbreviation's existence is way stupider than posting about it.
It may help if you think of it like any old-timey slang. You don't use it more than once a year, but when IBM/MS/ORACLE/CISCO were using those tactics against open source in the earlier days of the public internet - It was used a lot.
With lemmy being somewhat skewed towards the technically-minded, and older crowd, it is something we used as a general word often enough that to a lot of us it is just another word, and not an obscure abbreviation/initialism.