• MBM@lemmy.world
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      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.

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      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.

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      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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        Alright, how do you decide who is the “lowest common denominator” who shouldn’t get to have a say over what is being discussed?

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          How about the people who stumble across the comm’s posts on All but aren’t subscribed? On Reddit you could also talk about the original user base from before a sub started hitting r/all but !technology@lemmy.world doesn’t really have an ‘original’ user base.

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            It does sound reasonable to prioritize subscribed users when counting upvotes, to reflect the interests of that particular community.

            But I don’t think that will stop people from bringing up any news involving Twitter. The submission and initial momentum likely happens within the community itself.

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              That would be cool, never thought about that. Straight up not allowing voting from All/when you’re not subbed could also be interesting as an experiment. But yeah, here plenty of people are just interested in Twitter news.

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                are just interested in Twitter news.

                From the way I’m interpreting that… shouldn’t that demand for ‘just twitter news’ lead to a new community for that specifically? Like if it’s really that interesting to enough people, wouldn’t that be the better outcome?

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        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.

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

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                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).

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                    Well, the app’s name still Facebook isn’t it? I bet this dumb CEO is planning to change that too.

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              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.

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                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”.

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            This is an absurd position. I agree there could stand to be fewer posts. I don’t need to hear fifteen times that Mastodon has record increases (which would actually qualify as technology news by your standards, wouldn’t it?). But I would like to see it once. A limitation to keeping one popular article (as determined by the mods) per discrete news item would be a far better approach.

            I’m not interested in hearing about how Elon took over an X Twitter account yet again. I am very interested however in hearing that companies will lose verification on Twitter unless they buy enough ads. That is currently newsworthy.

            It’s clear that a substantial number of users are interested in hearing about this. It’s also clear that a substantial number of users are sick of hearing about this. There should be a compromise to find a middle ground, not either extreme of “as many posts about Twitter as you’d like” nor “no posts about Twitter at all”.

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            Yeah let’s have no news at all about one of the largest and most influential tech companies going through massive restructuring! That kind of thing has no place on a tech community

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            Twitter’s been a big deal for a long time. So, to expect nobody to post about it is unreasonable.

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

        It’s a lose lose situation.

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