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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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.
Completely fair distinction. Thanks
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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.
i do think there is a (unlikely) scenario where tesla’s value begins to shrink which causes a significant liquidity problem for twitter since there is no way the site is generating meaningful revenue now, but i think that kind of speculation is pointless in the end since who knows what similarly rich doofus he could get to bail him out.
The loans are due soon, and were guaranteed by Tesla stock, so it’s fairly likely.
Social networks rarely “die”. They simply become irrelevant. MySpace still exists.
Platforms rarely completely die, as in they shut down, they just become irrelevant. Digg still around despite being long supplanted by Reddit, MySpace still exists after everyone went to Facebook, but nobody cares about them anymore.
Twitter/X will end up the same, unless some real catastrophic happens financially or legally.
I think it’s going to have a slow death.
Right now it’s going through it’s “Lady gaga phase”, doing more and more ridiculous things. Maybe this is the equivalent of a meat dress.
Eventually people will grow tired of the drama. Either it is a good product at the end (Lady Gaga is a pretty bloody great singer) or it’ll be dead.
With all the public talking about it and not understanding that they are giving the popularity, im pretty sure its not going to die soon.
Its weird, some people seem to be on things just because daddy elon fucks is related to it. Its sickening.
I mean, myspace.com still exists
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.)
Such a great way to condense content.
Definitely the best way to handle all this.
Why are so many people opposing this mega thread? Why do they care so much what “daddy” elon fucks do? Its unbelievable to me
Yea this aint gonna fix people from making their own posts about it anyways…
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.
Informative, to the point, with just a little bit of sass on the tail-end there. Well done PopBobert. No sarcasm.
People are obsessed with Elon musk
It’s more that people enjoy schadenfreude.
