Hey folks -

The seemingly never-ending flood of Musk/Twitter news and commentary is getting to some of our users (and some of the mods, too), so we’ve decided to create a general Megathread for all things related to Elon Musk and X/Twitter.

This thread will be a general Musk catch-all, so we’re including news about Musk acting the fool as related to any of his companies (SpaceX, Tesla, Boring). News about those companies that don’t involve Elon can be posted outside this thread.

  • @trashhalo@beehaw.org
    9•2 years ago

    An alternative that may address the concerns in comments would be temporary sub communities for loud events

    1. Create community technology_elon_bs@
    2. Mods of parent community inherit sub
    3. Create a pinned post in parent community announcing.
    4. Close sub community when noise goes down.
    • Pigeon
      2•2 years ago

      I like this compromise solution.

      Or, if one wanted a more permanent community instead, we could split a, idk, “Corporate and Billionaire Drama” or “Web Drama” community (something along those lines) off for this type of thing going forward, so “Technology” could stay more specifically about tech and not about all the crap around it. But maybe that line would be too hard to draw I guess.

  • @wildeaboutoskar@beehaw.org
    7•2 years ago

    While people have made some interesting comments on the downsides of megathreads, I’m glad we have a way of containing the Musk stuff. It gets a bit much.

    To people who do have concerns though, if you’re tech minded maybe look at contributing to a way of improving the functionality of Lemmy. It’s in our gift to improve this place so if we can do something about it then we should, rather than passively complain when things aren’t how we want them to be.

  • Storksforlegs
    5•2 years ago

    What would be more helpful I think would be a “hide post” option.

    That way you could hide stuff you’re not interested in, or posts you have already read. (Something good from reddit)

    • @davehtaylor@beehaw.org
      10•2 years ago

      I like the idea of a megathread wrt to Musk. Seeing my front page composed of 50% Musk threads all of which are roughly the same, is frustrating. Or, hell, maybe make a Musk News sub and confine posts of it there that people can subscribe to if they want. It’s just too much of a whack a mole right now because there’s so much going on with it.

      However, I do wish we had a “hide post” option. There was a post a while back that involved animal harm, and seeing that in the middle of my feed for 2 days straight was extremely upsetting, and there was nothing I could do about it.

  • @trashhalo@beehaw.org
    5•2 years ago

    https://www.theverge.com/2023/7/26/23808331/twitter-x-ads-advertising-incentives-verification-brands

    another change to Twitter’s ad policy. Starting August 7th, advertisers that haven’t reached certain spending thresholds will lose their official brand account verification. According to emails obtained by the WSJ, brands need to have spent at least $1,000 on ads within the prior 30 days or $6,000 in the previous 180 days to retain the gold checkmark identifying that the account belongs to a verified brand.

  • frog 🐸
    4•2 years ago

    If only containing Elon Musk and his immature drivel to a single location was as easy in real life…

  • @mrGarbanzo@beehaw.org
    3•2 years ago

    I’m cool with this, I don’t need these articles telling me about musk/zucc/spez running the old platforms into the ground anymore. It’s stuck in the past and ragebait. I think it’s best to look forward. Walking away from old platforms completely means not letting them live rent-free in our heads anymore.

  • @ShockDetective@beehaw.org
    2•2 years ago

    It would be nice if we could filter out items by regex or something so people that don’t want to see Elon/twitter whatever can just blacklist certain terms. Then the megathread wouldn’t really be needed of the value is just to declutter the feed.

  • QHC
    2•2 years ago

    I agree with others that the concept of “mega threads” are fundamentally broken and not something I’m interested in carrying over from Reddit.

    This is a place for discussion where users vote to decide what rises or stays obscure. Let the system work how it is designed. If there are too many posts about a particular topic, it’s either extremely relevant at the time or there are other moderation rules that could be considered to make sure low-effort posts are not dominating more substantial posts.