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[–] sixtyshilling@lemmy.world 179 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (17 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.

[–] hoshikarakitaridia@sh.itjust.works 91 points 1 year ago (24 children)

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

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[–] ChrislyBear@lemmy.world 20 points 1 year ago

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

[–] MonkderZweite@feddit.ch 14 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (3 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 Musk group.

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[–] STUPIDVIPGUY@lemmy.world 12 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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[–] eochaid@lemmy.world 79 points 1 year ago (9 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.

[–] Brahm1nmam@lemmy.sdf.org 13 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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[–] xthedeerlordx@lemmy.world 9 points 1 year ago (29 children)
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[–] flatplutosociety@lemmy.world 66 points 1 year ago (2 children)

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

[–] MargotRobbie@lemmy.world 10 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Also, memes about that movie I was promoting.

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[–] rob_t_firefly@lemmy.world 8 points 1 year ago

We can keep that Twitter shit over on Mastodon where it belongs.

[–] Kovu@lemmy.world 54 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

[–] Sanctus@lemmy.world 15 points 1 year ago

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

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[–] infix@lemmy.world 48 points 1 year ago (2 children)

Or limit it to a pinned permathread?

[–] BadRS@lemmy.world 14 points 1 year ago (2 children)

Just call it "Elon Madness"

[–] dragnucs@lemmy.ml 17 points 1 year ago

One for Elon, and another for Reddit.

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[–] Bonzo@lemm.ee 31 points 1 year ago (2 children)

Seriously idgaff about how a media business is performing.

[–] ojmcelderry@lemmy.one 19 points 1 year ago

Agreed. News about X is not news about technology.

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[–] Javish@lemmy.world 23 points 1 year ago

Please and thank you.

[–] enu@lemm.ee 23 points 1 year ago (7 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!

[–] macintosh@lemmy.world 8 points 1 year ago (1 children)

why did you remove the Grindr unionization post

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[–] ChrislyBear@lemmy.world 21 points 1 year ago

Yes! Social media gossip is NOT "technology".

[–] kouichi@ani.social 20 points 1 year ago (6 children)

Well, it is tech, what do you expect?

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[–] AncientFutureNow@lemmy.world 18 points 1 year ago (2 children)

Why are there so many Elon bootlickers on Lemmy?

[–] Psythik@lemm.ee 18 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Why are there so many Elon bootlickers anywhere?

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[–] niktemadur@lemmy.world 14 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.

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[–] FeelzGoodMan420@eviltoast.org 13 points 1 year ago (32 children)

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...

[–] DrDickHandler@lemmy.world 24 points 1 year ago

Lemmy has the same users that Reddit has. What the fuck were you expecting?

[–] ChaoticEntropy@feddit.uk 8 points 1 year ago

Come to Lemmy as an alternative to reddit!

... No don't use it like reddit!?!

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[–] sexy_peach@feddit.de 11 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

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[–] NutWrench@lemmy.world 11 points 1 year ago (1 children)

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.

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[–] preasket@lemy.lol 10 points 1 year ago

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

[–] cheerjoy@lemmy.world 9 points 1 year ago (1 children)

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

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[–] Fazoo@lemmy.ml 9 points 1 year ago

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

[–] Tired8281@lemmy.world 9 points 1 year ago (20 children)

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?

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[–] Lightor@lemmy.world 8 points 1 year ago

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.

[–] wmassingham@lemmy.world 8 points 1 year ago (1 children)

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.

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