So I guess X is past the “deny there was antisemitic content” stage.
Also, the hot take from Ken Paxton
Paxton claimed to be "extremely troubled by the allegations that Media Matters, a radical anti-free speech organization, fraudulently manipulated data on X.com."
Literally every second post was some bullshit like this on main until I blocked like 20 subs. If you wanted to contain it, it failed pretty spectacularly.
You’re right, let’s post it all over the news and tech communities for everyone to see, right?
You could make the argument that this community exists to fill a niche where post tags would work well - namely, Musk stuff can get posted here, general-subject comms can choose to ban it, and you - a strong independent user who don’t need no spam - can block it.
That’s literally the whole point of it. Block it. Stop complaining about people doing you a favor.
I think it's worth keeping tabs on what the richest man in the world is doing to a social media platform the mainstream media pays a lot of attention to.
The point is that Musk-related posts are supposed to go on this community, instead of filling all the others, so that you can block just this community if you don't want to see it. The fact that people keep dumping Musk content in other communities is their failing, not a failure of this specific subset.
This is not just about the guy being a dick, that's him actively working to make criticism of him - and by extension all oligarchs - harder or even impossible. Definitely something we should talk about.
I'm not subbed here, but I always assumed it was a joke like the name of the community is what other users say.
Like, I see users on here complain about Musk posts on tech communities and stuff, just as on reddit. So I figured the user who named it did so because everyone was telling them to stop spamming communities with Musk posts.
So they decided to make a community specifically for that content, and ironically named it that.
I have no clue if that's correct.. but I'm totally okay with this community existing, as it prevents its content from perpetuating other communities. If you don't want to see their posts, just block the community.
It's dumb and counterintuitive to criticize their community's existence when it has the content all boxed up an ready for you to block it. Why would you instead want the users here inundating communities you browse with Elon Musk posts?
I have blocked so many anime, meme, and sports communities I have no interest in, and I don't see them anymore. I don't go into the community I don't enjoy to complain about their content. That's useless. Just block and move on.