If lemmy had user-defined filters, I’d use them. Right now I’m downvoting the stuff, but there’s already a community for musk-related stuff: !EnoughMuskSpam@kbin.social
Yes!
Please yes.
I’m tired of seeing the same story of that chode in six or seven different communities.
Wait you mean you don’t want to hear the next pricing plan for twitter? Aren’t you a tech enthusiast???
As much as I enjoy watching the
worldXitter burn, there’s a limit to everything.
Musk has already been banned as a topic on tech communities in 4 instances I’ve seen personally. I get folks are tired of him and I find him insufferable, but he is often relevant (unfortunately) to current events, so I don’t think wholesale bans of him are a good idea. There are plenty of topics I find annoying, but I don’t tell people to ban the topic from the community just for my personal preference.
Like I think trump is a cringe inducing piece of shit and don’t enjoy seeing him everywhere. I’d love a filter, I don’t expect communities to ban him as a topic.
Yeah but relevant to current tech events? Not that often.
It’s complicated I guess.
Musk offering starlink access to gaza is tech news, him changing subscription prices for xitter is not.
I guess I just mean that a happening is not “tech” by virtue of musk saying it.
He owns starlink, Twitter, Tesla, and SpaceX. Whether we like it or not all of these have huge bearings on their respective industries.
And before people started hating musk, again rightfully so I’m embarrassed I ever liked him, you couldn’t go a day without something about SpaceX and people getting all excited. This is purely about the person, not the relevance of the topics.
If y’all could somehow come up with a nuanced soft ban on “his personal life“ and politics or whatever, I guess that’s a decent compromise? But that just sounds tedious and people will bicker. And also his politics unfortunately have an impact on how Twitter is run, so you would have to find ways to separate those things out. It’s just seems kind of needless.
I mean imagine if we couldn’t spread the word/learn of what he was doing with his starlink satellites and Ukraine/Russia. That stuff is really important.
The nuanced soft ban you’re talking about is just the topic of the community.
When musk does something tech related that’s tech. When he does something that’s not tech related that’s off topic.
Twitter is a social media website it’s not tech.
I don’t think content should be banned on Lemmy just because some people are tired of it. But each instance can have its own rules of course.
They’re not asking for it to be banned from the instance, or from Lemmy entirely; they just want it to be moderated out of this community.
Yup. Was going to write the same.
The whole point of having communities is to establish a focus of discussion. You wouldn’t come in here to talk about flower arranging.
You just did.
Yes please. None of those have anything to do with technology. I want to see some PM-esque posts in here.
I think if it’s actually related to tech it’s fine. For example, I read an article from DHH talking about how Musk’s strategy has saved money by moving from Cloud to on-prem and doing it cut massive costs.
I think that’d be okay?
A mod responded: https://lemmy.ml/comment/5330224
I think you should leave your input under their comment for them to consider.
That seems like “business” more than technology
Ah you broke my heart. Clear indication that I’m drifting more into management every day :(
No, that would be beneficial for him and like-minded people. It creates a bubble around him where only his supporters know what’s going on.
Yes please. My downvote finger is getting sore.
I’m into it. All of the news is bad news for him and I love it. It’s like a house burning for a year and I just like checking in on it every few days.
Some people like the antics of Bozo the Clown. I enjoy the antics of Stammering Elon.
There’s already EnoughMuskSpam fully dedicated to musk antics, I feel like this place could benefit from closing off Bozo so the community can develop different posting habits
yes
Don’t block me though, please
That post timing lol https://i.imgur.com/U1ystUX.png
It does seem like there should be filters, though. That seems like a pretty important feature.
Holy cow, this sounds like a moderation nightmare–glad I don’t have to do it! There’s no way you’re going to get through it without someone complaining about it.
In my mind, this is definitely something that individuals should address with blocks and filters. If those filters don’t exist, they should be written.
I don’t realistically expect such ban to happen. I started banning everyone who posts about Musk instead, my feed got a lot cleaner.
Oh, that’s one way to do it too.
There are apps which offer user specific filters. I highly suggest switching to one. It’s made my lemmy experience much better.
I use the browser exclusively for this stuff. My phone is opened maybe once an hour or so. Most often 3 times a day.
