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

  • DogMuffins@discuss.tchncs.deEnglish
    178·
    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.

          • CmdrShepard@lemmy.oneEnglish
            72·
            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?

              • blkpws@lemmy.ml
                01·
                1 year ago

                Didn’t he replied to you with:

                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.

                Or what you are expecting to get? Just say it yourself already and stop asking to people…

                  • CmdrShepard@lemmy.oneEnglish
                    11·
                    1 year ago

                    I said the code is the tech and then gave examples of what isn’t tech. What else do you want? The dictionary definition is

                    the application of scientific knowledge for practical purposes, especially in industry.

                    which points even further away from social media being tech IMO.

          • blkpws@lemmy.ml
            62·
            1 year ago

            Adding a subscription payment isn’t tech, there are more companies than Starlink, Twitter, Tesla, and SpaceX, and we aren’t posting everything that a company do, just with Twitter or Tesla because they are popular and Elon Musk a meme… Mercedes for example has better autopilot than Tesla, Porsche has better electric vehicle than Tesla, but I don’t see people posting about that every time. I think there is an excessive posting of his stuff, and he just loves to get fame. I suppose that’s why he does stupid and crazy nonsense stuff like naming a good and popular brand name as Twitter to X… it’s like destroying all what was already built just to keep his name on news.

              • 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.

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

                    Anything about the daily runnings of a company, it’s personnel and other business decisions is not news about tech, no matter what the company is. Tech news should be about the technology. New breakthroughs, new coding language releases, new hardware etc.

                    Edit: and to be a tech company is a company that creates tech, not always just one that uses it. I could be on the side of social media companies being tech companies, but that doesn’t mean all news about said companies are tech news, because they are not.

      • blkpws@lemmy.ml
        1·
        1 year ago

        You’re going to ban all social media topics too?

        Only if they become spammy, I suppose. I already sent you this video where explains how Elon Musk is just re-inventing things that already exists, but what he’s doing with Twitter seems like a 15 years old kid playing with his new toy… and isn’t really doing anything interesting or new to society.