Hey folks -

The seemingly never-ending flood of Musk/Twitter news and commentary is getting to some of our users (and some of the mods, too), so we’ve decided to create a general Megathread for all things related to Elon Musk and X/Twitter.

This thread will be a general Musk catch-all, so we’re including news about Musk acting the fool as related to any of his companies (SpaceX, Tesla, Boring). News about those companies that don’t involve Elon can be posted outside this thread.

  • QHC@kbin.social
    10·
    1 year ago

    I agree with others that the concept of “mega threads” are fundamentally broken and not something I’m interested in carrying over from Reddit.

    This is a place for discussion where users vote to decide what rises or stays obscure. Let the system work how it is designed. If there are too many posts about a particular topic, it’s either extremely relevant at the time or there are other moderation rules that could be considered to make sure low-effort posts are not dominating more substantial posts.

  • Hyperi0n@lemm.ee
    2·
    1 year ago

    I just went on twitter today and saw the change. X? What is that man’s obsession with the letter X? Half of his kids are named X-something, his newest scheme is called x.ai or something? I swear to god he’s an android or something.

  • mrmanager@lemmy.today
    2·
    1 year ago

    I think it’s a bit silly to have megathreads just because some users can’t scroll past posts that doesnt interest them.

    I agree its not great with multiple threads but it’s also not the end of the world imo. Users want to talk about these things. Let them.

    It’s not fun to post on megathreads because your comments get buried. At least it was like that on reddit.

    • mifan@feddit.dk
      3·
      1 year ago

      To rid the feed of Elon news we now have a stickied post with Elon news. I feel like there’s a meme hidden there somewhere.

    • Zetaphor@zemmy.ccEnglish
      1·
      1 year ago

      I think it’s a bit silly to have megathreads just because some users can’t scroll past posts that doesnt interest them.

      The problem is there are so goddamn many, to the extent that I’m working on a userscript that lets me entire hide posts that contain keywords. Checking my frontpage using Subscribed/Active, 5 of the first 20 posts are about this “news”. And that’s a full day after it happened, yesterday was far worse

      Edit: The userscript is ready!

    • Frog-Brawler@kbin.social
      1·
      1 year ago

      That’s the reason I want a mega thread. I want to be able to scroll past anything Elon. Putting it in one spot is ideal.

    • hoodatninja@kbin.social
      0·
      1 year ago

      My guess is some of them simply don’t like people saying bad things about musk and just want to stifle discussion.

      • zark@beehaw.org
        1·
        1 year ago

        I’m pretty sure most of the people running Beehaw are more than happy with people saying bad things about Musk. But it does get a little spammy, it’s honestly not all that interesting after a while?

        • hoodatninja@kbin.social
          0·
          1 year ago

          I get that but all this solution does is effectively ban any discussions of Musk, Tesla, SpaceX, or Twitter.

            • hoodatninja@kbin.social
              0·
              1 year ago

              Within 5 days the megathread will have 1 to 0 comments a day. And that’s a generous estimate. You know this.

                • hoodatninja@kbin.social
                  0·
                  1 year ago

                  Because lemmy, like Reddit, is not conducive to the concept of a megathread. It’s the format that’s the problem, not the contents. You expect people to constantly stop what they’re doing and deliberately navigate to an old megathread and then sort through all the comments/conversations happening with days - weeks even - of gaps between them? Nobody does that.

    • TheRtRevKaiser@beehaw.orgOPM
      1·
      1 year ago

      I’m sorry if it’s frustrating to you to have megathreads like this. I’m not enthused about the extra effort in redirecting posts to the Megathread, either, but I’m not aware of a better way to handle topics that are flooding a community other than gathering them up in a thread like this. It annoys users (and mods) when dozens of articles about the same topic are dominating a community, so we’d like to do something to alleviate that when possible. I’ve seen similar concepts used in a number of different places (old-school forums, reddit alternatives like Tildes) because, as far as I’ve seen, there’s not a better alternative for wrangling topics that might otherwise clutter the feed.

      If you have any ideas about better ways to handle this type of thing in the future, I’d love to hear them (and I genuinely mean that - I think we’re open to suggestions if a better way exists).