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

  • @DogMuffinsEnglish
    31•7 months ago

    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.

    • BolexForSoup
      23•7 months ago

      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.

      • @DogMuffinsEnglish
        8•7 months ago

        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.

          • @DogMuffinsEnglish
            14•7 months ago

            Honestly I think it’s weird that people think social media is tech.

              • @CmdrShepard@lemmy.oneEnglish
                6•6 months ago

                The product itself (the code) may be considered tech but the company’s/employee’s/executive’s business/personal/anything outside of the product dealings shouldn’t be. If running a website makes any information related to you tech related then literally every company is a tech company. Meta’s stock price dropping because Zuckerbot farted in a kindergarten classroom isn’t anything tech related. Subscription fees being added or increased isn’t tech related.

                How would you define tech with regards to social media and how does that definition not include any other company running a website that you can interact with?

                  • @DogMuffinsEnglish
                    1•6 months ago

                    There are no “tech companies”, there a companies that deal with new and interesting technologies more than others, but that doesn’t mean that anything that company does is “tech news”.

                    Obviously the answer to “what is technology and what belongs in /c/technology” is subjective, everyone will have their own definition. But if your definition includes anything that social media companies do then you may as well just include any company with a website in your definition of technology.

                    If meta rolls out threads, that’s tech news because it’s a company experimenting with a new technology. If xitter wants to change it’s subscription pricing that’s not tech news, because it has very little to do with technology.

                  • MrScottyTayEnglish
                    1•6 months ago

                    News about a tech company is usually just business news and not news about tech though. Just like most Twitter news that gets posted on here.

    • @helenslunch@feddit.nl
      0•6 months ago

      Yeah but relevant to current tech events? Not that often.

      LOL what? Literally everything he does is related to tech.

      • Turun
        2•6 months ago

        Most of what he does is talking, with a pinch of false advertisement and stock manipulation thrown in the mix.

        But I’m happy about any actual developments! I’m super hyped for the next starship launch for example.

      • @Umbrias@beehaw.org
        1•6 months ago

        I mean anything anyone does on the internet is tech given they do it on the internet.

        Musk is largely just being a shitty ceo doing ceo things, kinda notably for cultural reasons, sure, but musk news probably better serves as more business news than tech.

      • @DogMuffinsEnglish
        1•6 months ago

        Seriously? If you really believe that then I don’t know what to say to you.