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can we please keep this community about technology and not Twitter/X and elon news? (lemmy.ml)

submitted 1 year ago by [email protected] to c/[email protected]

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[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago

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!

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 year ago (1 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

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago

Wait, what? I dont give a fuck about the elon musk shit, but I care about grindr employees. Seems this community is earning a block from my side

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago

Found a handy script to minimize this:

https://greasyfork.org/en/scripts/471718-lemmy-post-keyword-filter

[–] [email protected] -1 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (1 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.

[–] [email protected] -1 points 1 year ago (3 children)

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

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago

I keep downvoting them. But I am apparently alone.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago

The point is that news about Twitter rebranding is simply not related to technology. This is a technology community. These submissions should not even be posted in the first place to have the opportunity to be voted on.

[–] [email protected] -1 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

Are you really suggesting that we take the low quality Reddit approach to high quality subs like /r/funny?

I suppose this is what happens when the lowest common denominator goes down coupled with ignorance of how the lowest common denominator affects community quality.

Communities lose their niche by catering to the lowest common denominator and become homogeneous with each other. This has been a long-standing phenomena on Reddit, one which I would expect to not be carried over to Lemmy since it's largely a symptom of a user base that has more interest in memes, funnies, and celebrity worship than discussion and real news.