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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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[–] 39 points 3 years ago (1 child)

How many posts on Twitter is in your feed? Sorting by Hot, I see only two posts on Twitter, not including your post. Same if I sort by New.

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  • [+] [S] -123 points 3 years ago (5 children)

    Even if it is only 1 it is more than it should be.

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

    If that's what you think I suggest you to start looking for filter options, maybe some apps already have them.

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

    It’ll be funny to see because he’ll have to block the letter X

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

    Yeah well I bet it is gonna be called Twitter for a while yet (the best option would be they keep calling it Twitter lol).

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  • [+] [S] -20 points 3 years ago (1 child)

    Could be a solution. But what if that company has an actual tech news, like release a new open source software or started contributing to a given web standard.

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  • [–] 17 points 3 years ago

    Well, then I guess you should put your priorities on a balance before making any filtering route.

    If it helps for something I also get tired of repetitive news (especially because I'm subbed to many tech communities), but I just scroll and hide (Voyager and Summit), so not much of my "time is lose".

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  • [–] 6 points 3 years ago

    This is an absurd position. I agree there could stand to be fewer posts. I don't need to hear fifteen times that Mastodon has record increases (which would actually qualify as technology news by your standards, wouldn't it?). But I would like to see it once. A limitation to keeping one popular article (as determined by the mods) per discrete news item would be a far better approach.

    I'm not interested in hearing about how Elon took over an X Twitter account yet again. I am very interested however in hearing that companies will lose verification on Twitter unless they buy enough ads. That is currently newsworthy.

    It's clear that a substantial number of users are interested in hearing about this. It's also clear that a substantial number of users are sick of hearing about this. There should be a compromise to find a middle ground, not either extreme of "as many posts about Twitter as you'd like" nor "no posts about Twitter at all".

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