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General Megathread for Elon Musk Nonsense and Twitter News (beehaw.org)
submitted 3 years ago by [M] to c/technology@beehaw.org
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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.

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[–] 93 points 3 years ago* (last edited 3 years ago) (34 children)

I think it's a bit silly to have megathreads just because some users can't scroll past posts that doesnt interest them.

I agree its not great with multiple threads but it's also not the end of the world imo. Users want to talk about these things. Let them.

It's not fun to post on megathreads because your comments get buried. At least it was like that on reddit.

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  • [–] 11 points 3 years ago* (last edited 3 years ago) (3 children)

    I think it’s a bit silly to have megathreads just because some users can’t scroll past posts that doesnt interest them.

    The problem is there are so goddamn many, to the extent that I'm working on a userscript that lets me entire hide posts that contain keywords. Checking my frontpage using Subscribed/Active, 5 of the first 20 posts are about this "news". And that's a full day after it happened, yesterday was far worse

    Edit: The userscript is ready!

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  • [–] 6 points 3 years ago (1 child)

    IMO the important thing is removing duplicates and pushing people to post to the most relevant communities (and for us regular users, only upvoting the post in the most relevant community). As well, Lemmy itself needs better means of combining the same post across many communities.

    When I say removing duplicates, I also mean for a given event, not a literal duplicate link. We don't need 5 posts from different media sites on the same event unless a new one is significantly different.

    That's the issue I've been noticing a lot. Every major news site wants to post their own opinion piece on how dumb Musk is (can't blame em) and it feels like every single one of those will get posted to some Lemmy community.

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  • [–] 3 points 3 years ago (20 children)

    My guess is some of them simply don’t like people saying bad things about musk and just want to stifle discussion.

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  • [–] 36 points 3 years ago (9 children)

    I’m pretty sure most of the people running Beehaw are more than happy with people saying bad things about Musk. But it does get a little spammy, it’s honestly not all that interesting after a while?

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  • [–] 8 points 3 years ago (8 children)

    I get that but all this solution does is effectively ban any discussions of Musk, Tesla, SpaceX, or Twitter.

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  • [–] 16 points 3 years ago (7 children)

    No, it doesn't.

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  • [–] 6 points 3 years ago* (6 children)

    Within 5 days the megathread will have 1 to 0 comments a day. And that's a generous estimate. You know this.

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  • [–] 8 points 3 years ago (3 children)

    But that's not censorship. It's people choosing to disengage or no longer to contribute.

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  • [–] 10 points 3 years ago* (2 children)

    Because lemmy, like Reddit, is not conducive to the concept of a megathread. It’s the format that’s the problem, not the contents. You expect people to constantly stop what they’re doing and deliberately navigate to an old megathread and then sort through all the comments/conversations happening with days - weeks even - of gaps between them? Nobody does that.

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  • [–] 1 point 3 years ago (1 child)

    Maybe, but Lemmy has sorting options that Reddit didn't, like Active and New Comments, so maybe we need to reevaluate megathreads for Lemmy

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  • [–] 1 point 3 years ago*

    There’s nothing to evaluate. Megathreads were designed to kill topics on Reddit (unless it was a MAJOR, developing, current event) and they do the same here. You’re the first person to comment at all in this thread in over a month.

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  • [–] 1 point 3 years ago (1 child)

    Most of the Musk and Twitter posts don't even have many comments as it is anyway. And when they do it's people saying the same thing over and over in multiple splintered comment sections.

    Besides, I don't think lemmy is that way for megathreads yet like reddit can be. Partly because the userbase is smaller and more engaged, and partly because "active" sort exists.

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  • [–] 10 points 3 years ago (7 children)

    No, people are annoyed by the constant articles he generates.

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  • [–] 9 points 3 years ago* (3 children)

    So the solution is to all but ban any discussion of him or his companies, all of which are pretty important topics, particularly in US tech news?

    I can't stand the dude, he's garbage. I wish he'd fade out of the limelight and let smart people take his companies forward. But to functionally ban any discussions because he's too present is a big over-correction.

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  • [–] 7 points 3 years ago (2 children)

    There is already a system for users to provide feedback on what articles they do or don't want to see.

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