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

  • BolexForSoup@kbin.social
    285·
    1 year 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
      168·
      1 year 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
          195·
          1 year ago

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

            • CmdrShepard@lemmy.oneEnglish
              82·
              1 year 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·
                  1 year 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.

                • MrScottyTay@sh.itjust.worksEnglish
                  21·
                  1 year 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.