I’m almost ready to block this domain. Bunch of Musk shit and bad news all around.

I want to post a non-news idea I had about verifying people online, though with Google's current destructive proposal for a web standard in the headlines, I am admittedly a bit worried it's going to get conflated.

The idea would be that it serves the same kind of purpose as what a company would ever need - verifying that someone is a unique person, verifying that they are over a certain age - only when the user volunteers that info, and without actually giving said online company actual information about them.

When I read the headlines about such systems being attempted by game companies or web companies, it basically comes with a "Trust us!" caveat that I can't imagine anyone following. BUT, they at least give some respectable PR language about how such things might be useful to combat harassment, fake accounts, etc, and it does give me some ideas. The internet is kind of a limitless place, but having no limits for everyone is in some ways a limitation in itself.

So, I'm curious if people would actually want threads like that in this Community instance.

True, the antics of a social media site shouldn't really be the focus of this community

This community's best use case is finding niche and/or new and exciting tech ideas and tools

When we first got here, people were complaining about that everything was about reddit all the time, then it slowed down until r/place happened again.

Just let the news happen naturally, Musk shenanigans with 𝕏 is the tech headline right now.

I get where you're coming from, but seeing posts like this for so many popular new topics is getting repetitive too. Its definitely tech related. Elon and twitter news will slow down eventually, and people will obsess over something new, guaranteed. Better to just ride it out IMO.

Y'all know there's a voting system so people see the kind of posts they would want from a tech sub

Agreed. Elmo is only in this because he wants that dopamine hit of attention that front-page news gets him. It's why bought Twitter. Getting on the front page, just for a moment is all that matters to him.

Also, it is LONG past time we got over our child-like worship of billionaires. It's embarrassing to watch.

But my Techno Daddy news?... No, yeah. Reddit had the same issue. Enough with musking up tech subs.

Seriously. At least put the twice daily Elon Musk stories in one thread.

It's fucking ridiculous.

Could you guys at least find other billionaires to obsess over? A bit of variety would be nice.

Man this post is full of a lot of really angry people that take seeing stuff they don't like in their feed way too seriously.

For those of you (like me) who are interested in keeping up with Twitter/Elon antics, “enoughmuskspam” also exists in Lemmy.

Twitter is a stage for attention and the "news" posted here is more about the ego than the technical aspects of the stage.

LMAO it's hard when he does so much stupid shit