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.
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.
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
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.
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.
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
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.
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.
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.
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.)
What is this community for exactly? Is it for technology? Because I don’t really see many (if at all) posts about technology. Just complaining/dooming about big tech companies/people who run said companies.
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.
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.
it would just make more sense that all such content gets redirected to a different channel where separate posts actually are separate posts instead of expecting people to navigate down through a single post’s comments for whatever is new, for whomever wants to do that.
That’s all. Chill out.
edit: and you can call it “ElonsDumpsterFire” if you’re concerned about it always being full of his biggest stans. Troll them with the name if you’re that concerned.
Thankfully I have no idea what that means and don’t care.
Meanwhile, between the two phrases you’re continually bitching about I said this:
“it would just make more sense that all such content gets redirected to a different channel where separate posts actually are separate posts instead of expecting people to navigate down through a single post’s comments for whatever is new, for whomever wants to do that.”
Which is a cogent argument as to why separating the content in a separate channel is better than relying on a single megathread and its comment hellscape, even if you don’t want to recognize it as such.
It’s hilarious when people complaining about their important replies not being recognized as such eventually reduce themselves to total junk one and two word replies, because they’ve got nothing left.
"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.
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.
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