Hey everybody,
Due to the bombardment of Elon Musk content, the mods have decided to make a pinned mega thread. Please post all of your Elon Musk related news, gossip, technology and articles here.
We know many of you are deeply interested in Elon Must, but we need to allow space for other technology content as well.
As always, be excellent to each other.
Yours truly, moderators.
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This seems like a very poor decision. Just create a limit of 1 article per discrete Twitter topic. It’s obvious that the users want to discuss the Twitter trainwreck, just as it’s obvious that a substantial number of users are also tired of hearing about it.
I think we’d agree that free reign to post as much about Twitter as you’d like would be over the top, but I think a mega thread like this is too far in the other direction. The compromise position here is fewer articles, not none at all.
I appreciate that it’s difficult to steward a community like this as moderators. It needs a guiding hand to stay on topic and not devolve into just spam about a single topic. At the same time, too firm of a hand will too heavily restrict topics, and people will leave for greener pastures if they don’t find the available topics interesting.
(Sorry if this is the wrong place, I looked for an option to directly message the moderation team but couldn’t find one.)
Ah yes let’s bury all discussion of anything relating to any of those companies. 😒
Why are so many people opposing this mega thread? Why do they care so much what “daddy” elon fucks do? Its unbelievable to me
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This is the second tech community to do this in 2 days. The megathread in the other instance is already dead one day in. This stifles discussion, it does not just move it around.
To borrow from one of my comments over there: Nobody checks megathreads unless it’s an ongoing, high profile situation. I guarantee you this megathread is going to get essentially no engagement within 48 hours and now for some odd reason all news about SpaceX, Twitter, Tesla, and Musk, is functionally banned.
This is a terrible idea and I know every mod here knows this is functionally a ban. I can’t stand Musk but this is a really bad idea.
With all due respect - how much discussion about Elon can there really be? Maybe a couple of substack posts here and there to get more insight but realistically it’s just the same thing over and over again. Special man got mad and has been throwing a years long temper tantrum- decimating a company in the process. I don’t think that’s gonna change and I’m pretty tired of seeing him clog up my feed.
Huh
Filter it out?
No need. It’s been helpfully filtered out thanks to a megathread.
Just what Lemmy needs, a thread that kills engagement because megathreads don’t work. I know most of us don’t have apps with keyword filters yet (lifesaver), but I’d much rather have too much of something than not enough while trying to grow a community. Annoying growing pains over ghost town any day.
My .02
Megathreads work on breaking news where users will want to constantly refresh. Topic megathreads never work. Not enough material is developing and no one knows when to check the megathread.
It’s been a week now and when you sort by active, surprise surprise, this is the top comment. Because literally no one uses this megathread, like a bunch of us predicted lol
Does anyone else genuinely think Twitter/X will die anytime soon with the latest changes Elmo is making?
depends on your definition of “die”. it is not going to go offline, but it will certainly cease to be of any moderate utility to most people and will cease to have any meaningful cultural impact within a couple of years at this rate
Yeah, even if it costs money to maintain, Elon will hang onto it. It’s useful to him.
“Megathread” for one of the 25 Technology magazines on this site doesn’t really work. That concept might work on Reddit but it really doesn’t work here with all of the tech forums being so distributed. There can’t be common sizing of rules unfortunately. I’m still scrolling past dozens of the same article, or 6 other megathreads for the same topic.
