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.

  • SeedyOne@lemmy.caEnglish
    385·
    11 months ago

    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

    • LostMyRedditLogin@lemmy.worldEnglish
      231·
      11 months ago

      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.

  • hoodatninja@kbin.social
    203·
    11 months ago

    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.

    • djquadratic@kbin.social
      205·
      11 months ago

      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.

        • Tiger Jerusalem@lemmy.worldEnglish
          6·
          11 months ago

          To me the issue is that I want to see what new shenanigans Musk made, but I don’t want a bazillion posts about the same hijinks.

          • hoodatninja@kbin.social
            01·
            11 months ago

            Honestly, I would respect the move a lot more if the mods would just own up to the fact that they are banning all things related to Elon musk, instead of putting lipstick on the pig that is this decision.

  • gsa32@lemmy.worldEnglish
    81·
    11 months ago

    Does anyone else genuinely think Twitter/X will die anytime soon with the latest changes Elmo is making?

    • picassowary@lemmy.worldEnglish
      8·
      11 months ago

      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

        • picassowary@lemmy.worldEnglish
          2·
          11 months ago

          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.

          • originalucifer@moist.catsweat.com
            21·
            11 months ago

            tesla will be bought by one of the big guys when they collectively take all of teslas marketshare with affordable, repairable, un-recalled versions of its products… someone will want the name. it certainly wont be for the manufacturing lines.

      • gsa32@lemmy.worldEnglish
        31·
        11 months ago

        Because of how Elmo is running Twitter/X

        I still think it’ll take 3-5 years before it finally dies

        • Nuuskis9@feddit.nlEnglish
          3·
          11 months ago

          Will Threads ever come popular?

          I never had account in Twitter, but for me it looks like it’s become a honeypot for right-wing useful idiots. And it has gained a lots of attraction simply because the censorship was ended in just one night.

      • 520@kbin.social
        3·
        11 months ago

        The question is, will it remain that way in the coming years?

        MSN messenger was at one point the world’s most used communicator app too.

      • givesomefucks@lemmy.world
        English
        1·
        11 months ago

        Most of those are not profitable…

        And Twitter is saddled with literally billions of dollars of debt it wasn’t a year ago, and payments start soon.

        Either he’s going to have to start paying obscene amounts of his own money to keep it at its current level, or he drastically cuts workers and/or infrastructure.

        For this to have worked, he’d have to take one of the popular websites in the world (that doesn’t make a profit) and make it mote popular while monetizing it.

        So it maintaining it’s old position just isn’t enough. And things can (likely will) nosedive soon.

    • electrogamerman@lemmy.worldEnglish
      2·
      11 months ago

      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.

    • Goodie@lemmy.worldEnglish
      1·
      11 months ago

      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.

    • thehatfox@lemmy.worldEnglish
      1·
      11 months ago

      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.

    • radix@lemmy.worldEnglish
      2·
      11 months ago

      So are MySpace and Digg. Some other (smaller) social networks have failed entirely, but the really entrenched ones don’t seem to ever really die off completely.

  • EnderWi99in@kbin.social
    6·
    11 months ago

    “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.

      • hoodatninja@kbin.social
        4·
        11 months ago

        Who on earth wants to subscribe to a community that is exclusively about Elon Musk other than his biggest cheerleaders? The dude is overhauling (breaking) one of the biggest social media companies in the world. His decisions at his companies, like it or not, are incredibly relevant to tech discussions across a swath of industries. Banning him is like banning all discussions of Mike Pence from politics communities because he’s just “in the news too much.”

        Is Musk the single most important issue? Of course not. But banning all discussion of him and his companies is to censor important discussions that impact us today and moving forward.

          • hoodatninja@kbin.social
            01·
            11 months ago

            Chill out.

            Why is it whenever someone doesn’t have something substantive to say they tell someone to relax who has done nothing THAT INDICATES THEY ARE ANGRY!!! (please let it be clear this is a joke)

            I was expressing how it’s not a good solution. If a few question marks and two italicized words is what it takes to be considered “not chill” and warrants a “wtf bro” response, my inclination is to say “you need to relax a bit.” But that would be disrespectful and surely you didn’t actually interpret my previous comment as so severe, so I’m definitely not saying that.

  • assassin_aragorn@lemmy.worldEnglish
    41·
    11 months ago

    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.)

  • sndrtj@feddit.nlEnglish
    2·
    11 months ago

    In X-related news: X Japan just released their first single in 8 years!

  • CassowaryTom@lemmy.oneEnglish
    1·
    11 months ago

    Informative, to the point, with just a little bit of sass on the tail-end there. Well done PopBobert. No sarcasm.

  • hoodatninja@kbin.social
    1·
    11 months ago

    I’d just like to point out that not a single article about anything relegated to this megathread - which is relatively broad actually - has been posted since this began. The most recent comments are 4 days old and are either jokes or saying “good.”

    As many of us noted, these subjects have been functionally banned from this community. I won’t be pointing it out/arguing about it anymore. But mods, if you’re actually reading this you should just abandon or at least acknowledge what this is amongst yourselves.