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Hey everybody,

Due to the bombardment of Elon Musk content, the mods have decided to make a pinned mega thread. Please post all of your Elon Musk related news, gossip, technology and articles here.

We know many of you are deeply interested in Elon Must, but we need to allow space for other technology content as well.

As always, be excellent to each other.

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[–] [email protected] 63 points 1 year ago (3 children)

Just what Lemmy needs, a thread that kills engagement because megathreads don't work. I know most of us don't have apps with keyword filters yet (lifesaver), but I'd much rather have too much of something than not enough while trying to grow a community. Annoying growing pains over ghost town any day.

My .02

[–] [email protected] 51 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Megathreads work on breaking news where users will want to constantly refresh. Topic megathreads never work. Not enough material is developing and no one knows when to check the megathread.

[–] [email protected] 9 points 1 year ago

Completely fair distinction. Thanks

[–] [email protected] 5 points 1 year ago

Make an Elon musk community

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[–] [email protected] 30 points 1 year ago (1 children)

AOL is still a thing. kinda. twitter isnt going to die, its going to fade out into irrelevance

[–] [email protected] 16 points 1 year ago

So are MySpace and Digg. Some other (smaller) social networks have failed entirely, but the really entrenched ones don't seem to ever really die off completely.

[–] [email protected] 19 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (8 children)

Does anyone else genuinely think Twitter/X will die anytime soon with the latest changes Elmo is making?

[–] [email protected] 33 points 1 year ago (4 children)

depends on your definition of “die”. it is not going to go offline, but it will certainly cease to be of any moderate utility to most people and will cease to have any meaningful cultural impact within a couple of years at this rate

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[–] [email protected] 14 points 1 year ago (2 children)

It's the 5th most hit site globally, it's going nowhere.

https://www.similarweb.com/top-websites/

[–] [email protected] 18 points 1 year ago

The question is, will it remain that way in the coming years?

MSN messenger was at one point the world's most used communicator app too.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 year ago

Most of those are not profitable...

And Twitter is saddled with literally billions of dollars of debt it wasn't a year ago, and payments start soon.

Either he's going to have to start paying obscene amounts of his own money to keep it at its current level, or he drastically cuts workers and/or infrastructure.

For this to have worked, he'd have to take one of the popular websites in the world (that doesn't make a profit) and make it mote popular while monetizing it.

So it maintaining it's old position just isn't enough. And things can (likely will) nosedive soon.

[–] [email protected] 11 points 1 year ago

Social networks rarely “die”. They simply become irrelevant. MySpace still exists.

[–] [email protected] 8 points 1 year ago

Platforms rarely completely die, as in they shut down, they just become irrelevant. Digg still around despite being long supplanted by Reddit, MySpace still exists after everyone went to Facebook, but nobody cares about them anymore.

Twitter/X will end up the same, unless some real catastrophic happens financially or legally.

[–] [email protected] 5 points 1 year ago (2 children)

Why would anybody think like it'll die soon?

[–] [email protected] 7 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (1 children)

Because of how Elmo is running Twitter/X

I still think it'll take 3-5 years before it "dies"

[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 year ago

Will Threads ever come popular?

I never had account in Twitter, but for me it looks like it's become a honeypot for right-wing useful idiots. And it has gained a lots of attraction simply because the censorship was ended in just one night.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago

Yeah it won’t die “soon” because it will be a zombie like Facebook for many many years to come. But retrospectively I think there’s a good chance we’ll remember the Elon takeover as the day it died.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 1 year ago

I think it's going to have a slow death.

Right now it's going through it's "Lady gaga phase", doing more and more ridiculous things. Maybe this is the equivalent of a meat dress.

Eventually people will grow tired of the drama. Either it is a good product at the end (Lady Gaga is a pretty bloody great singer) or it'll be dead.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 1 year ago

With all the public talking about it and not understanding that they are giving the popularity, im pretty sure its not going to die soon.

Its weird, some people seem to be on things just because daddy elon fucks is related to it. Its sickening.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 year ago

I mean, myspace.com still exists

[–] [email protected] 14 points 1 year ago

This seems like a very poor decision. Just create a limit of 1 article per discrete Twitter topic. It's obvious that the users want to discuss the Twitter trainwreck, just as it's obvious that a substantial number of users are also tired of hearing about it.

I think we'd agree that free reign to post as much about Twitter as you'd like would be over the top, but I think a mega thread like this is too far in the other direction. The compromise position here is fewer articles, not none at all.

I appreciate that it's difficult to steward a community like this as moderators. It needs a guiding hand to stay on topic and not devolve into just spam about a single topic. At the same time, too firm of a hand will too heavily restrict topics, and people will leave for greener pastures if they don't find the available topics interesting.

(Sorry if this is the wrong place, I looked for an option to directly message the moderation team but couldn't find one.)

[–] [email protected] 12 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (1 children)

"Megathread" for one of the 25 Technology magazines on this site doesn't really work. That concept might work on Reddit but it really doesn't work here with all of the tech forums being so distributed. There can't be common sizing of rules unfortunately. I'm still scrolling past dozens of the same article, or 6 other megathreads for the same topic.

[–] [email protected] 10 points 1 year ago

In X-related news: X Japan just released their first single in 8 years!

[–] [email protected] 8 points 1 year ago

Ah yes let's bury all discussion of anything relating to any of those companies. 😒

[–] [email protected] 5 points 1 year ago

Yea this aint gonna fix people from making their own posts about it anyways...

[–] [email protected] 5 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Why are so many people opposing this mega thread? Why do they care so much what "daddy" elon fucks do? Its unbelievable to me

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[–] [email protected] 5 points 1 year ago

Definitely the best way to handle all this.

[–] [email protected] 5 points 1 year ago

Such a great way to condense content.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 year ago
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