Twitter (now X) has become a great platform for following news, and many media groups (including ours) share links to…

  • @applejacks
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    1451 year ago

    “babe, wake up, it’s time for your hourly post about Elon Musk/Twitter”

    • @[email protected]
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      381 year ago

      I had blocked “Elon Musk” on RiF and didn’t knew how good I had it. Hope Jerboa devs add something like that.

      • RQG
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        271 year ago

        Now I understand the rename. It is much harder to block X.

      • RheingoldRiver
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        41 year ago

        Artemis has this, currently the overall app is in beta & you have to be using an account from artemis.camp (until the kbin api is fully rolled out to all instances)

      • Obinice
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        31 year ago

        I think you can do it in Sync, it has a bajillion options. You should be able to do it once Boost comes out too, as it was an original option.

      • stopthatgirl7OP
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        -31 year ago

        You know you can just scroll past things you’re not interested in, right?

        • Jim
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          61 year ago

          You know if you block something you aren’t interested in you don’t even have to scroll past it, right?

          • stopthatgirl7OP
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            Yup, and I’m all for blocking! Go for it.

            I’m not, however, a fan of people who comment just to complain about seeing something they don’t like instead of curating their feed or moving past. Which is why I’ve said nothing to the folks wishing for proper block/mute functions (even though a random post really isn’t the place where that’s gonna do anything; spend that energy making feature requests or in communities for those upcoming apps where the devs will actually see it) and made the comment to get person snarkily complaining about Musk content.

    • Franzia
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      41 year ago

      Looks like I can filter against posts by keyword on Sync for Lemmy.

  • @[email protected]
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    561 year ago

    Man-child overpays for company, makes a concerted effort to ruin the things that make it good, then complains that it’s not good anymore.

    For someone who claims to be smart, Elon is a fucking idiot.

    • Alto
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      231 year ago

      Tends to be true of the vast majority of people that scream about how smart they are

      • @Aceticon
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        81 year ago

        People who actually have and genuinelly believe they have a self-evident human quality, don’t feel the need to go around telling it to others: they know other people will figure out on their own and those who won’t don’t value such qualities.

        This applies to a lot more things than just intelligence.

  • Ab_intra
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    391 year ago

    This is so stupid. He wants them to publish their articles on twitter? What.

    • @[email protected]
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      Facebook did the same thing years ago, it’s part of the enshittification cycle. When you post a link to another site, you’re directing traffic away from twitter and it’s advertisers, so Elon would much prefer that you be forced to post the entire article so that no one ever has to leave twitter and give their ad revenue to anyone else.

      Obviously no one would agree to this if it was happening from the start, but once your platform has a stranglehold on everyone, you can start tightening the noose like this. Everyone hates it, but people feel like they have nowhere else to go, so they put up with it. Or at least that’s what twitter’s betting on

      • Ab_intra
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        191 year ago

        This reminds me of the whole Google AMP tbh.

    • Alien Surfer
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      I think some news companies are trying to sue him for linking to articles without paying them, which is a strange turn of events given it wasn’t too long ago that businesses would paid you to link to their site (that’s what Elon says anyway; I’m not in web commerce so I don’t know personally how it works.) So, I guess he wants to have people write the news on his site instead?

      I think news companies are going bust?

  • circuitfarmer
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    311 year ago

    Will it just go out of business already? I’m tired of hearing about stupid ideas from a billionaire grifter.

    • ripcord
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      81 year ago

      Get hundreds of millions of people to quit using it finally, and all the advertisers that went back to quit propping up the dying company.

      SOMETHING is keeping it in business, and it’s not constant cash from Elon. He hasn’t sold any new stock lately that I’m aware of, and is what he’d need to do to pump in more money. Which Tesla shareholders get really pissed when he does.

  • Raging LibTarg
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    301 year ago

    “Although advertisers have taken a stand against this change, Musk plans to go ahead with it anyway.”

    Lol what a fucking renob.

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    1 year ago

    Twitter (now X) has become a great platform for following news

    Press (X) for doubt

    • @paperplane
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      31 year ago

      Press (Twitter) for doubt

      FTFY

  • Ertebolle
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    171 year ago

    The one thing Twitter was still sort of useful for was getting feeds from news organizations that aren’t on Mastodon yet, this is going to kill it for that.

    • stopthatgirl7OP
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      11 year ago

      Yup. I still go to Twitter to supplement what I get news-wise from here and Mastodon, and as they drive news sites from Twitter, the less use I have for it.

    • On
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      81 year ago

      You know you can add additional text along with the link, right? like the headline of the news?

  • magnetosphere
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    Keeping up with Twitter news has become like watching a Netflix show that you know got canceled before any of the plot threads were resolved.

    Twitter’s death is inevitable at this point, so who cares about the details?

  • @MrFlamey
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    61 year ago

    And it doesn’t even matter. I’m starting to wonder if Elon is just trying to see how much he can annoy people without them moving to another social media platform. Twitter wasn’t great before and is now much worse from what I can tell, yet its users don’t actually care because if they did, they’d have moved to alternatives, which hasn’t really happened.

  • @xc2215x
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    61 year ago

    Another Elon decision that is not good. What else is new ?

  • @baruchin
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    21 year ago

    This moron is trying too hard to kill Twitter (X). I really don’t understand how many people are comfortable with his vesianic decisions and keep using the platform as if nothing happens.