can we please keep this community about technology and not Twitter/X and elon news?

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.

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

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.

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

Or limit it to a pinned permathread?

Like it or not, it's tech news. When Intel does something interesting, or Google wets the bed again, we'll talk about that a lot, then. Right now it's Elon doing dumb stuff. Last month it was spez. If we ban every hot news topic, what's left to discuss?

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!

Hear, hear! I’m so sick of watching that douche get all the free publicity in the world. It’s like his haters haven’t all figured out that this why he does half the shit he does.

My favorite technology is bronze smelting.

What about you guys?

Seriously idgaff about how a media business is performing.

Yes! Social media gossip is NOT "technology".

But it’s news about tech.

Found a handy script to minimize this:

https://greasyfork.org/en/scripts/471718-lemmy-post-keyword-filter

I am automatically down voting everything with musk in title

Yeah. Just because a tech company does something, that doesn't make it technology news. Call me when there's actual technologic development coming out.

Please and thank you.

Too late for that. Technology has been redefined to mean whatever Si valley IT tech bros are up to.

I recommend to unsub and build topical communities.

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

Well, it is tech, what do you expect?

Why are there so many Elon bootlickers on Lemmy?

I want to post a non-news idea I had about verifying people online, though with Google's current destructive proposal for a web standard in the headlines, I am admittedly a bit worried it's going to get conflated.

The idea would be that it serves the same kind of purpose as what a company would ever need - verifying that someone is a unique person, verifying that they are over a certain age - only when the user volunteers that info, and without actually giving said online company actual information about them.

When I read the headlines about such systems being attempted by game companies or web companies, it basically comes with a "Trust us!" caveat that I can't imagine anyone following. BUT, they at least give some respectable PR language about how such things might be useful to combat harassment, fake accounts, etc, and it does give me some ideas. The internet is kind of a limitless place, but having no limits for everyone is in some ways a limitation in itself.

So, I'm curious if people would actually want threads like that in this Community instance.

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This community's best use case is finding niche and/or new and exciting tech ideas and tools

Honestly, Lemmy is starting to really disappoint me. I figured I was leaving most of the circlejerking, reposting, and shitposting behind on Reddit. However Lemmy is every bit just as bad :-/ which is frightening considering how few people are on Lemmy. If it's getting this shitty right now, imagine it if there was a real Reddit migration...

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

True, the antics of a social media site shouldn't really be the focus of this community

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

Seriously. At least put the twice daily Elon Musk stories in one thread.

It's fucking ridiculous.

I’m almost ready to block this domain. Bunch of Musk shit and bad news all around.

When we first got here, people were complaining about that everything was about reddit all the time, then it slowed down until r/place happened again.

Just let the news happen naturally, Musk shenanigans with 𝕏 is the tech headline right now.

Agreed. Elmo is only in this because he wants that dopamine hit of attention that front-page news gets him. It's why bought Twitter. Getting on the front page, just for a moment is all that matters to him.

Also, it is LONG past time we got over our child-like worship of billionaires. It's embarrassing to watch.

Twitter is a stage for attention and the "news" posted here is more about the ego than the technical aspects of the stage.

Man this post is full of a lot of really angry people that take seeing stuff they don't like in their feed way too seriously.

The reddit sub always seemed to be a lot more about the business side of technology and I just remember a lot of arguing.

It would be nice to have an actual technology sub that discusses actual technology.

How about the mods unsticky the Twitter/Elon megathread?

I get where you're coming from, but seeing posts like this for so many popular new topics is getting repetitive too. Its definitely tech related. Elon and twitter news will slow down eventually, and people will obsess over something new, guaranteed. Better to just ride it out IMO.

Could you guys at least find other billionaires to obsess over? A bit of variety would be nice.

For those of you (like me) who are interested in keeping up with Twitter/Elon antics, “enoughmuskspam” also exists in Lemmy.

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

one for c/juxtaposition (does that exist yet?)

No, I want to acquire all the wisdom of the successful super genius tech guru playing 9D chess. /s

I agree, OP. We all know Twitter has the newest cutting edge technology on the planet! Every ounce of information must be reported on about the company here.

Twitter renaming to X is definitely something high on tech news. Would love to have a run where similar headlines are removed.

I totally agree

Agreed

b-but muh circlejerk

...

If anything, its a "reflection" of the current state of "online communities" -- circlejerk and "follow the hivemind above all else"-fiesta.

Nobody wants to have "fun" in here -- but to be/feel validated by randoms.

Thanks

democrat

Why not ignore the messages about shithead and his shitty stunts?

test test test

democrats

No.

Yei

Yeah, how dare people talk about current events.

Watching Elon work is like watching a snake eat a rat. Horrible, but you can't look away.

Maybe we could restrict it to one Elon thread per day?