If lemmy had user-defined filters, I’d use them. Right now I’m downvoting the stuff, but there’s already a community for musk-related stuff: [email protected]

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The nuanced soft ban you’re talking about is just the topic of the community.

When musk does something tech related that’s tech. When he does something that’s not tech related that’s off topic.

Twitter is a social media website it’s not tech.

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You’re going to ban all social media topics too?

Only if they become spammy, I suppose. I already sent you this video where explains how Elon Musk is just re-inventing things that already exists, but what he’s doing with Twitter seems like a 15 years old kid playing with his new toy… and isn’t really doing anything interesting or new to society.

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Yeah, I agree, social media is part of tech, it’s just spammy.

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Yeah right, but you aren’t saying it at all, you’re just making it long and asking people what is tech… And other people are already telling that anything can be tech too… So the “ban musk spam” is mainly because those news aren’t actually any interesting. And I suppose when they say “social media is not tech” they are talking about that they are using tech infrastructures and methods, but the communication between people isn’t a tech stuff.

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Honestly I think it’s weird that people think social media is tech.

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To exclude social

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News about a tech company is usually just business news and not news about tech though. Just like most Twitter news that gets posted on here.

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Anything about the daily runnings of a company, it’s personnel and other business decisions is not news about tech, no matter what the company is. Tech news should be about the technology. New breakthroughs, new coding language releases, new hardware etc.

Edit: and to be a tech company is a company that creates tech, not always just one that uses it. I could be on the side of social media companies being tech companies, but that doesn’t mean all news about said companies are tech news, because they are not.

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The product itself (the code) may be considered tech but the company’s/employee’s/executive’s business/personal/anything outside of the product dealings shouldn’t be. If running a website makes any information related to you tech related then literally every company is a tech company. Meta’s stock price dropping because Zuckerbot farted in a kindergarten classroom isn’t anything tech related. Subscription fees being added or increased isn’t tech related.

How would you define tech with regards to social media and how does that definition not include any other company running a website that you can interact with?

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Didn’t he replied to you with:

The product itself (the code) may be considered tech but the company’s/employee’s/executive’s business/personal/anything outside of the product dealings shouldn’t be. If running a website makes any information related to you tech related then literally every company is a tech company.

Or what you are expecting to get? Just say it yourself already and stop asking to people…

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But he replied…

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I said the code is the tech and then gave examples of what isn’t tech. What else do you want? The dictionary definition is

the application of scientific knowledge for practical purposes, especially in industry.

which points even further away from social media being tech IMO.

Adding a subscription payment isn’t tech, there are more companies than Starlink, Twitter, Tesla, and SpaceX, and we aren’t posting everything that a company do, just with Twitter or Tesla because they are popular and Elon Musk a meme… Mercedes for example has better autopilot than Tesla, Porsche has better electric vehicle than Tesla, but I don’t see people posting about that every time. I think there is an excessive posting of his stuff, and he just loves to get fame. I suppose that’s why he does stupid and crazy nonsense stuff like naming a good and popular brand name as Twitter to X… it’s like destroying all what was already built just to keep his name on news.

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I’m not an expert to define what is what.

He is relevant because he is rich, and any stupid idea like naming Twitter as X makes everyone talk about it.
https://redirect.invidious.io/watch?v=rNVfYWZdKQM

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I just think it’s a stupid question, not worth to overthink about it. Go ahead where you want to go and don’t ask me those stuffs.

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