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[–] [email protected] -2 points 1 year ago (4 children)

Even if it is only 1 it is more than it should be.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 year ago (2 children)

If that's what you think I suggest you to start looking for filter options, maybe some apps already have them.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago (1 children)

It’ll be funny to see because he’ll have to block the letter X

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago

Yeah well I bet it is gonna be called Twitter for a while yet (the best option would be they keep calling it Twitter lol).

[–] [email protected] -1 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Could be a solution. But what if that company has an actual tech news, like release a new open source software or started contributing to a given web standard.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago

Well, then I guess you should put your priorities on a balance before making any filtering route.

If it helps for something I also get tired of repetitive news (especially because I'm subbed to many tech communities), but I just scroll and hide (Voyager and Summit), so not much of my "time is lose".

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago

Yeah let's have no news at all about one of the largest and most influential tech companies going through massive restructuring! That kind of thing has no place on a tech community

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago

Then maybe this isn’t the community for you.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago

This is an absurd position. I agree there could stand to be fewer posts. I don't need to hear fifteen times that Mastodon has record increases (which would actually qualify as technology news by your standards, wouldn't it?). But I would like to see it once. A limitation to keeping one popular article (as determined by the mods) per discrete news item would be a far better approach.

I'm not interested in hearing about how Elon took over an X Twitter account yet again. I am very interested however in hearing that companies will lose verification on Twitter unless they buy enough ads. That is currently newsworthy.

It's clear that a substantial number of users are interested in hearing about this. It's also clear that a substantial number of users are sick of hearing about this. There should be a compromise to find a middle ground, not either extreme of "as many posts about Twitter as you'd like" nor "no posts about Twitter at all".