If lemmy had user-defined filters, I’d use them. Right now I’m downvoting the stuff, but there’s already a community for musk-related stuff: [email protected]

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    Yes!

    Please yes.

    I’m tired of seeing the same story of that chode in six or seven different communities.

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      Wait you mean you don’t want to hear the next pricing plan for twitter? Aren’t you a tech enthusiast???

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      I think anything “musk did/said ABC” should be banned. Reading news about SpaceX or whatever else Musk owns that’s technology related is fine IMO, but the constant “Musk this” and “Musk that” just makes me downvote or at “worst” unsub.

      Regarding Twitter, if lemmy had filters, I’d block all of that too. However I can see that it has some influence on people and would be fine treating it as an exception to the muskysphere as long as it doesn’t contain “Musk” in the title.

      My 2 cents. Thank you for considering the ban 🙏

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      For me it’s the difference between a statements and events. If Musk just says something it’s generally worthless drivel, but if Tesla engineers a new battery pack or gets targeted by a lawsuit then it’s something worth knowing.

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    I agree, but only restrict the news if it mentions Musk, not just one of his companies. For example, SpaceX does interesting stuff, and to be honest operates mostly independently of him these days.

    Technology is technology, no matter which asshole owns the company.

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    Breaking News: Elon Musk announces new X laundry service!

    “It’s the laundry service of the future! Only requires a recurring subscription of $49.99! (shipping fees not included) Mail us your laundry!!!”

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        You can get drone service as an add on for only an additional $89.99 a month! Don’t be left in the past! Start your X laundry service today! IT’S THE LAUNDRY OF THE FUTURE! PAY ME NOW YOU PEONS!!!

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    Yes please. None of those have anything to do with technology. I want to see some PM-esque posts in here.

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    I don’t think content should be banned on Lemmy just because some people are tired of it. But each instance can have its own rules of course.

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    I think if it’s actually related to tech it’s fine. For example, I read an article from DHH talking about how Musk’s strategy has saved money by moving from Cloud to on-prem and doing it cut massive costs.

    I think that’d be okay?

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      That’s not “musk’s strategy” though. That’s just common knowledge. If you change your own brakes, it’s cheaper than at the dealership. If you run your own servers, it’s cheaper than in the cloud. The reason people choose the cloud is either they don’t want to, or can’t, run their own server farm.

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        If you run your own servers, it’s cheaper than in the cloud. The reason people choose the cloud is either they don’t want to, or can’t, run their own server farm.

        Generally speaking, if it wasn’t cheaper for them to use the cloud, they probably wouldn’t. Owning infrastructure comes with costs that amortize better at scale. If infrastructure is not a big cost in serving your customers, then it’s probably cheaper to rent.

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          There are some costs that are cheaper when you go to the cloud because of scale. Things like bandwidth, redundancy, and physical security. But they are massively offset by how expensive renting the hardware is. I can rent a server for $500/month that I could build for $3,000-$4,000. That’s 6-8 months before I’m in the red with the cloud. Think about those costs over one server’s lifetime (roughly 5 years, depending on your needs). That’s $26,000 over 5 years, or $5,200 per year extra, for one server. If your company is using 10 servers (assuming your costs scale linearly at this point), that’s $52,000 per year, rather than just running a couple fiber lines into your office. And that’s a small company.

          So yeah, it’s more expensive to go with the cloud, almost always. But yes, the cloud gives you benefits. This is pretty common knowledge in the industry, and musk didn’t come up with the idea of bringing services on-site.

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            Something to add, since I colocate my own hardware in a datacenter: Just the cost of operating a server is non-trivial too. I pay $120/month for just 2U, 1gbps networking, and power usage (600W peak usage), providing my own hardware. Things get a lot cheaper if you can rent a whole rack space though. It’s absolutely been worth it though, because to rent a similar specced server, it could easily be $1k/month.

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            That $52000/year isn’t enough to pay for even a single full time IT person. So now you’re probably either spending dev time on server admin (which is wasteful of dev salary, and it’s a subject they aren’t experts in, so you’re literally paying more for worse results), or outsourcing to an entity that hires the cheapest employees it can.

            Oooor, use a cloud provider. And if you’re a small company, you can probably get away with cheaper shared hosting.

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              Oh I was talking about renting a VPS, not managed services. Managed services are much more expensive.

              I just checked Digital Ocean’s pricing, and the server I was thinking of that’s about $500/month is $900/month for managed MySQL. That’s $107,400 extra per year if you want managed services.

              And again, this is for a small company that only needs 10 servers. If we’re talking about something more like 5,000 servers, those cloud costs will be absolutely enormous.

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          How about Cloud (someone else’s computers) vs. Colo/Data Center (someone else’s cooling and UPS/Generators Your computers) - the cost of running a data center correctly is huge. This is not even counting the 24/7 availability of help or security on the site.

          Of course, if you can get away with a 2 servers in a single rack more power to ya.

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        Ah you broke my heart. Clear indication that I’m drifting more into management every day :(

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      I love to watch expensive garbage burn.

      Watching Twitter burn to the ground along with Musk’s reputation is highly entertainment.

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      There’s already EnoughMuskSpam fully dedicated to musk antics, I feel like this place could benefit from closing off Bozo so the community can develop different posting habits

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    I don’t realistically expect such ban to happen. I started banning everyone who posts about Musk instead, my feed got a lot cleaner.

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    Holy cow, this sounds like a moderation nightmare–glad I don’t have to do it! There’s no way you’re going to get through it without someone complaining about it.

    In my mind, this is definitely something that individuals should address with blocks and filters. If those filters don’t exist, they should be written.

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      I think it would be pretty simple with some tooling to auto-flag articles with titles that include either “Elon” or “Musk,” and then a moderator would look at a list and approve/reject each one. Still tedious, just probably not that complicated.

      And yeah, we should absolutely have a concept of tagging. Maybe follow Steam’s lead and allow user to suggest tags? If enough users suggest the same tag, it could auto apply and then mods would get a notice and either approve or reject the tag (or kill the thread).

      Both require tooling, and I’m not sure if lemmy has that yet.

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    Fine, I’ll do it myself.

    https://lemmy.world/c/tech_news

    It’s about time I start subscribing to some RSS feeds since I left reddit anyway. I’ll start posting some stuff, everyone else feel free. I’ll probably add mods at some point.

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      Could you elaborate on this? Is this new community restricting specifically mentions of Musk, or is there a broader difference? In particular, there are a lot of people claiming that Twitter is a tech company and that it belongs in tech news. Is that also the view of this new community or do you consider Twitter a social media company, with only tangential and generally not newsworthy actions related to technology?