• @sixtyshilling@lemmy.world
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    1 year ago

    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.

        • @LostMyRedditLogin@lemmy.world
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          211 year ago

          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.

            • kratoz29
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              291 year ago

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

                • kratoz29
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                  61 year ago

                  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).

                  • DosDude👾
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                    21 year ago

                    I mean, meta is still being called Facebook. So I guess it’ll be a while

              • @dragnucs@lemmy.mlOP
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                21 year ago

                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.

                • kratoz29
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                  71 year 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”.

            • jerry
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              111 year ago

              Then maybe this isn’t the community for you.

        • @vd1n@sh.itjust.works
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          61 year ago

          It’s hard not to upvote because fuck Elon. But at the same time its all dumb shit.

          It’s a lose lose situation.

        • Secret
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          11 year ago

          I was like, " Yeah! Downvote the musk posts" Then I proceeded to down vote the top post because it’s about Elon Musk.

      • Hypnoctopus
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        11 year 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.

      • @douglasg14b@lemmy.world
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        1 year ago

        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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      1 year ago

      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 Musk group.

    • @STUPIDVIPGUY@lemmy.world
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      141 year ago

      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)

    • @dragnucs@lemmy.mlOP
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      111 year 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.

      • Metal Zealot
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        1 year ago

        Neither. It’s a rant about “Twitter/Elon/whatever billionaire does something stupid today” community.

        As you can see, nothing tech related. Just people related to the tech industry somehow

    • Metal Zealot
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      61 year ago

      Elon must stay rich from living in everyone’s heads rent-free…

    • Blaze (he/him)
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      61 year 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?