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[–] sixtyshilling@lemmy.world 295 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (11 children)

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.

[–] hoshikarakitaridia@sh.itjust.works 134 points 1 year ago (4 children)

Yeah I don't like this. Can't we just use our upvotes to decide which news are important?

[–] MBM@lemmy.world 4 points 1 year ago

Most people on All don't check what comm a post is from before upvoting. That's why on Reddit all subs that regularly hit r/all are basically the same. I'm fine with the Twitter news here, but upvotes don't work as quality control.

[–] Hypnoctopus@lemmy.ml 1 points 1 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.

[–] MonkderZweite@feddit.ch 41 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (1 children)

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 a Musk group.

[–] Die4Ever@programming.dev 16 points 1 year ago (2 children)

reddit used to have r/EnoughMuskSpam lol

[–] Blamemeta@lemmy.world 6 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Unfortunate how they spam musk themselves

[–] canis_majoris@lemmy.ca 6 points 1 year ago

Yeah I never got the gimmick of that sub because it's actively contributing to the problem. Guy lives rent free in their heads and they have to take it out on the rest of us.

[–] ChrislyBear@lemmy.world 23 points 1 year ago

Big news, yes. But not tech related at all. Those Elon news should be on TMZ.

[–] Whirlybird@aussie.zone 16 points 1 year ago

Twitter being rebranded to X is pretty big news in the world of tech.

Is it? It doesn't change anything.

[–] STUPIDVIPGUY@lemmy.world 16 points 1 year ago (1 children)

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)

[–] NovaPrime@lemmy.ml 6 points 1 year ago (1 children)

I agree with you that no one in the tech world is looking at Twitter for advice atm, but to say nothing changed at Twitter in any significant way since it's inception is disingenuous at best. Twitter's rapid growth and adoption led to the development of a number of key technologies needed to run global 24/7 uptime services at scale, just to name one macro example.

[–] agent_flounder@lemmy.one 0 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Ok that was then. What innovations have they put forth lately? Let's talk about that. Changing the company name isn't particularly Innovative.

[–] NovaPrime@lemmy.ml 1 points 1 year ago

Reread what I said: I agree that nothing major has been introduced by Twitter lately, but to say that they contributed nothing to the tech world since their inception, which is what the user above me was claiming, is disingenuous. Both can be true: Twitter can be a flaming pile of shit now (and it is), and it can also have been a very influential and technologically forward-thinking org at one point in time early on in their inception

[–] douglasg14b@lemmy.world 8 points 1 year ago (2 children)

That is not Tech news that is business news.

What technology was developed, explored, integrated, improved, or otherwise innovated or more broadly applied by this?

Nothing, it does nothing, it's a branding decision, business news, not tech news.

[–] sixtyshilling@lemmy.world 5 points 1 year ago (3 children)

Curious, those criteria you listed out are not present anywhere I can see in the community rules.

Perhaps you should petition the mods to change them if you feel so strongly about it.

[–] agent_flounder@lemmy.one 2 points 1 year ago (1 children)

I think we should or else create a new community to focus on those things so I can join that one.

[–] MBM@lemmy.world 1 points 1 year ago

Many instances have a tech community, I wonder if any of them are like that. !technology@beehaw.org !technology@lemmy.ml !tech@kbin.social !technews@radiation.party

[–] scv@discuss.online 1 points 1 year ago

The side car says this community is about technology news. I don't think they should list everything it's not, but maybe clarify if news about the tech industry are wanted or not.

[–] SgtThunderC_nt@lemmy.zip 1 points 1 year ago

This would be a welcome development, I feel like social media is something you use tech to do, but it's very rarely an interesting conversation about the tech itself.

Like how a grocery store has food but you wouldn't call it a restaurant.

[–] assassin_aragorn@lemmy.world 4 points 1 year ago

What technology was developed, explored, integrated, improved, or otherwise innovated or more broadly applied by this?

This is an interesting standard to apply and I'm curious to see how many posts would actually fit that, especially posts which seem to be about tech. Arguably, 30-60% of the top posts right now don't meet this.

[–] Shikadi@lemmy.sdf.org 8 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Is this place called technology news, or technology? Asking for a friend

[–] Metal_Zealot@lemmy.world 12 points 1 year ago* (last edited 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

[–] Blaze@sopuli.xyz 8 points 1 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?

[–] Metal_Zealot@lemmy.world 3 points 1 year ago

Elon must stay rich from living in everyone's heads rent-free..

[–] TheAmishMan@lemmy.world 2 points 1 year ago

I agree. I don't use Twitter and I really don't know much about Elon, but when one of the wealthiest people in the world is doing something with a major tech company, Id like to be somewhat informed

[–] dragnucs@lemmy.ml 2 points 1 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.