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can we please keep this community about technology and not Twitter/X and elon news? (lemmy.ml)
submitted 3 years ago by to c/technology@lemmy.world
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[–] 308 points 3 years ago* (11 children)

This is a technology community, and (whether you like it or not) Twitter being rebranded to X is pretty big news in the world of tech.

Especially with the slipshod way they are doing with it, there is bound to be a lot of articles covering different weird tangential effects from the rush job.

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  • [–] 141 points 3 years ago (4 children)

    Yeah I don't like this. Can't we just use our upvotes to decide which news are important?

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  • [–] 5 points 3 years ago

    Most people on All don't check what comm a post is from before upvoting. That's why on Reddit all subs that regularly hit r/all are basically the same. I'm fine with the Twitter news here, but upvotes don't work as quality control.

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  • [–] 2 points 3 years ago

    The point is that news about Twitter rebranding is simply not related to technology. This is a technology community. These submissions should not even be posted in the first place to have the opportunity to be voted on.

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  • [–] -5 points 3 years ago* (1 child)

    Are you really suggesting that we take the low quality Reddit approach to high quality subs like /r/funny?

    I suppose this is what happens when the lowest common denominator goes down coupled with ignorance of how the lowest common denominator affects community quality.

    Communities lose their niche by catering to the lowest common denominator and become homogeneous with each other. This has been a long-standing phenomena on Reddit, one which I would expect to not be carried over to Lemmy since it's largely a symptom of a user base that has more interest in memes, funnies, and celebrity worship than discussion and real news.

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

    Alright, how do you decide who is the "lowest common denominator" who shouldn't get to have a say over what is being discussed?

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

    How about the people who stumble across the comm's posts on All but aren't subscribed? On Reddit you could also talk about the original user base from before a sub started hitting r/all but !technology@lemmy.world doesn't really have an 'original' user base.

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

    It does sound reasonable to prioritize subscribed users when counting upvotes, to reflect the interests of that particular community.

    But I don't think that will stop people from bringing up any news involving Twitter. The submission and initial momentum likely happens within the community itself.

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  • [–] 1 point 3 years ago (1 child)

    That would be cool, never thought about that. Straight up not allowing voting from All/when you're not subbed could also be interesting as an experiment. But yeah, here plenty of people are just interested in Twitter news.

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  • [–] 1 point 3 years ago

    are just interested in Twitter news.

    From the way I'm interpreting that... shouldn't that demand for 'just twitter news' lead to a new community for that specifically? Like if it's really that interesting to enough people, wouldn't that be the better outcome?

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  • [+] [S] -33 points 3 years ago (4 children)

    I keep downvoting them. But I am apparently alone.

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  • [–] 51 points 3 years ago* (last edited 3 years ago) (1 child)

    Twitter being rebranded to X is pretty big news in the world of tech.

    Maybe, but we have seen it now. If every fart of Musk needs a new thread, maybe better to make a Musk group.

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

    reddit used to have r/EnoughMuskSpam lol

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

    twitter isn't relevant in technological development, it's just a toxic social media site which hasn't changed in any significant way since its inception (technologically speaking)

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

    I agree with you that no one in the tech world is looking at Twitter for advice atm, but to say nothing changed at Twitter in any significant way since it's inception is disingenuous at best. Twitter's rapid growth and adoption led to the development of a number of key technologies needed to run global 24/7 uptime services at scale, just to name one macro example.

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

    Ok that was then. What innovations have they put forth lately? Let's talk about that. Changing the company name isn't particularly Innovative.

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  • [–] 1 point 3 years ago

    Reread what I said: I agree that nothing major has been introduced by Twitter lately, but to say that they contributed nothing to the tech world since their inception, which is what the user above me was claiming, is disingenuous. Both can be true: Twitter can be a flaming pile of shit now (and it is), and it can also have been a very influential and technologically forward-thinking org at one point in time early on in their inception

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  • [–] 8 points 3 years ago

    It is definitely very big news, but I guess the amount of articles on that topic is overshadowing the rest of tech news.

    Maybe we could consider that news relative to Twitter/X should be on their own community, that users can choose to subscribe, ignore or block?

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

    That is not Tech news that is business news.

    What technology was developed, explored, integrated, improved, or otherwise innovated or more broadly applied by this?

    Nothing, it does nothing, it's a branding decision, business news, not tech news.

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

    Curious, those criteria you listed out are not present anywhere I can see in the community rules.

    Perhaps you should petition the mods to change them if you feel so strongly about it.

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  • [–] 1 point 3 years ago

    This would be a welcome development, I feel like social media is something you use tech to do, but it's very rarely an interesting conversation about the tech itself.

    Like how a grocery store has food but you wouldn't call it a restaurant.

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  • [–] 4 points 3 years ago

    What technology was developed, explored, integrated, improved, or otherwise innovated or more broadly applied by this?

    This is an interesting standard to apply and I'm curious to see how many posts would actually fit that, especially posts which seem to be about tech. Arguably, 30-60% of the top posts right now don't meet this.

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  • [–] [S] 3 points 3 years ago

    No, a rebrand is not a true technological news. It is regular news. Same would apply if Pizza company changed it's name. Internal policy changes of a website are not technological news either. Appointing a new director or firing staff, is still are not technological. Sure they its news, but have nothing to do with technology.

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