IBM, a major advertiser on X, has pulled its spending from the social media platform, whose employees are grappling with what to tell its other advertisers, according to internal messages.
To be clear: Musk endorsed a tweet which used a false antisemitic conspiracy theory to tell people why “Hitler was right”
Just because the article is about a tech company owner doesn’t mean it’s related to technology.
Musk being a shitty person isn’t technology related.
Social media company losing a lot of money as a result is.
No, it really isn’t. A social media company’s income is business or financial related, not technology.
Does that mean any business that has a web platform or an app is valid content for this sub?
Twitter doesn’t just have a web platform, it is a web platform and used to be one of the largest. But I’d say that yeah, tech companies fall into my personal idea of what this sub is
So where is the “technology” in that? Just because it’s a social media company? There’s dozens of those now, so what? A company implementing a new API or front end website redesign or new service that uses technology is technology. Not this. This is just general shit. The Internet boom was in the 90s. You may have had a point back then when this stuff was actually new.
It counts as relevant if it’s in the community and people are upvoting it.
A lot of people will upvote anything on a list without even looking at the community or considering the relevance of the post to that community (/all, /subs, /new, etc.)
That doesn’t mean the community should be restricted in what they discuss
People are often wrong.
Why do you hate democracy? The people have spoken!
I mean, women and non-whites vote republican, so I don’t put a ton of stock into what the numbers say. I’m sure Florida or Texas could pass a vote re-establishing slavery, but that doesn’t mean the people are right.
Just because an article involves a tech company doesn’t mean it’s about technology. Twitter losing ad revenue because it’s owner is a nazi is not about technology; it’s about marketing, finance, and politics.
It would be nice if this community didn’t devolve into a Musk news feed like it did on Reddit.
Just because an article is about a tech company doesn’t mean it’s about technology. Correct.
This community is called “technology”. Also correct.
But people can post what they want and upvote what they want. So if this is what they want, then they aren’t wrong. Look at “trees”. Not a single damn tree in the whole place.
I really do recommend starting a community called techWithoutMusk and moderating it how you like. I’m sure a bunch of people would join. Or become a mod here, and change what people can vote on.
This is the opinion of !technology@lemmy.ml, but the !technology@lemmy.world mods have chosen to not take a stance against it time and time again. It goes to reason that they think it’s fine in this community for now.
Typical .world W and .ml L
Actually, I find it rather humorous that .world lets the users dictate what’s discussed, while .ml dictates what the users can discuss. It runs counter to the ideologies that .ml is associated with, yet it fits perfectly with most implementations of that ideology. Life imitates art indeed.
Yeah, except .world’s fucking weird when it comes to piracy and keep actively trying to horde the userbase for some reason?
You guys are sad af.
And you are salty af.
E: Y’all don’t like the occasional username joke? 😂