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

Currently chatting with the other mods about this and while we don't want the community to be overrun by Elon, the articles are some of the most upvoted in the past few days. It seems, that people do want to hear about what's going on but not at a rate that drowns out other content. We've been careful to prune out duplicates to keep the flow down, but the volume of Elon posts and Twitter / X is definitely... a lot. I do see how some find it annoying so we're keeping an eye on the situation, but I do agree it does meet the criteria of being both news and tech related. I assume that he'll eventually run out of Twitter pieces to break, right :P

Please do keep an open line of communication with us and all replies, feedback and opinions are always welcome! Cheers!

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

why did you remove the Grindr unionization post

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

@enu reply to this please

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[–] [email protected] 14 points 1 year ago (2 children)

Yeah, Lemmy is for obsessively shitposting about Reddit, not Twitter.

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

Also, memes about that movie I was promoting.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 year ago

Yay oppenheimer

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[–] [email protected] 9 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (6 children)

This is a technology community, and (whether you like it or not) Twitter being rebranded to X is pretty big news in the world of tech.

Especially with the slipshod way they are doing with it, there is bound to be a lot of articles covering different weird tangential effects from the rush job.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 year ago (19 children)

Yeah I don't like this. Can't we just use our upvotes to decide which news are important?

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

Twitter being rebranded to X is pretty big news in the world of tech.

Maybe, but we have seen it now. If every fart of Musk needs a new thread, maybe better to make a Musk group.

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

reddit used to have r/EnoughMuskSpam lol

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[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 year ago

Twitter being rebranded to X is pretty big news in the world of tech.

Is it? It doesn't change anything.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 year ago

Big news, yes. But not tech related at all. Those Elon news should be on TMZ.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 year ago (3 children)

twitter isn't relevant in technological development, it's just a toxic social media site which hasn't changed in any significant way since its inception (technologically speaking)

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[–] [email protected] 9 points 1 year ago (7 children)

I get that this is a contentious topic and I agree that Musk gets too much coverage, but....I strongly believe that people should be able to post whatever they want as long as it adheres to the community's topic (technology) and adheres to the rules.

The arguement of, "I don't wanna see {topic here} so stop posting about {topic here}" is a really slippery slope. Clearly there are quiet users here that DO actually want to hear about X news and DO want to dicuss it. What about topics that appeal to you, or like 20% of the community, but 80% couldn't give a shit? Where is the line?

Realistically, this is on you. You don't like it? Downvote and scroll past it. Want a perfectly curated source of news you care about? Use an RSS reader that offers topic filters. This is a community of diverse interests that may not always reflect yours. Deal with it, or go elsewhere.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago (5 children)

Your point is absolutely valid, but what's happening at Twitter really is only relevant to social media news. There's no tech changing or advancing, just a really bad marketing decision. I personally do not believe that this is tech news or relevant to it.

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[–] [email protected] 7 points 1 year ago (3 children)

I’d rather want to know why we have 10 posts about twitter changing it’s name but the one post about grindr employees unionizing gets removed because it’s apparently not tech related

[–] [email protected] 5 points 1 year ago

Are unionization posts getting removed here? That seems against the whole idea of an open internet here.

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

This sort of situation is why I believe the human interests around technology should be covered.

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[–] [email protected] 6 points 1 year ago (2 children)

Why are there so many Elon bootlickers on Lemmy?

[–] [email protected] 7 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Why are there so many Elon bootlickers anywhere?

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 year ago

He got rich off the brand that's basically just himself. That gives gullible idiots the hope that their miserable lives will turn around once they finally "made it" like Musk in their minds did.

[–] [email protected] 5 points 1 year ago (1 children)

There's also this pathological thing of posting even the negative crap about these types of toxic figures, all the time. The attention they receive - positive and negative - is like flies swarming around shit.
"Enough musk spam"... then they proceed to carpet-bomb the goddamned place with musk spam.

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

Agreed, I literally blocked that community because I was tired of seeing his name all the time and all they ever post is shit about him. I really don't get it.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 1 year ago (5 children)

Well, it is tech, what do you expect?

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[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 year ago

Yes! Social media gossip is NOT "technology".

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

But my Techno Daddy news?... No, yeah. Reddit had the same issue. Enough with musking up tech subs.

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

Agreed whats more annoying is getting double X posts back to back

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

Y'all know there's a voting system so people see the kind of posts they would want from a tech sub

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

Does downvoting actually demote posts here? There's no karma.

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

LMAO it's hard when he does so much stupid shit

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

I am automatically down voting everything with musk in title

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