There have been multiple accounts created with the sole purpose of posting advertisement posts or replies containing unsolicited advertising.

Accounts which solely post advertisements, or persistently post them may be terminated.

Phegan ,

You can block communities you don’t want to see

kleenbhole ,

I came to Lemy for LESS moderation and MORE free speech. Nimby.

lexile6450 ,

Say anything anti lgbt and the whole cabal will ban all your accounts

witx ,

No, that would be beneficial for him and like-minded people. It creates a bubble around him where only his supporters know what’s going on.

Auzy ,

Yes Please. Twitter is dead, and we’re just reminding people to go take a look at it constantly. Just let the internet forget about him.

Cethin ,

Any time I click a link to Twitter by accident it just asks me to log in or create an account. I don’t think it’s viewable at all (without tools) for non-members anymore.

Tangentism ,

You can click that to clear it but you no longer get the threads or replies, just the initial tweet.

Cethin ,

Lately clearing it just shows a full window version of the same thing. I used to be able to close that popup and view it, but not lately.

bankimu ,

Twitter is very much active, it is the first place all political discussions happen. It is where the Israel attacks unfolded. It is where every big figure has an account and share their viewpoints.

It is also where you often see two sides having very different viewpoints argue, something in which it is unique - since by design it tries to allow different ideas even if you don’t agree with them.

But not so with Lemmy - which is extremely left centric, and harbours so much hatred against people, censorship, and the ostrich syndrome of burying you head in the sand, that this post to censor Elon and this amazing claim that Twitter is dead gets so much attraction. Case in point how I predict when near 100% accuracy that this comment will be voted down and buried.

jackalope ,

lol you can’t be censored on lemmy. It’s a decentralized platform. Just start your own server.

Auzy ,

Lol. Both sides argue? Most tweets are by a small number of people. Before, right wingers were complaining it’s all bots, now suddenly, Elon pushes dodgy Right wing accounts to the frontpage and you guys reckon it’s not true anymore.

How many people do you know who actually use Twitter? I can only think of one, and fairly sure he left it ages ago.

Twitter is growing in irrelevance. Just because people have accounts on it doesn’t mean they use it either.

Do you really think Twitter is growing? Lol.

ipkpjersi ,

That post timing lol i.imgur.com/U1ystUX.png

It does seem like there should be filters, though. That seems like a pretty important feature.

anachronist ,

Some people like the antics of Bozo the Clown. I enjoy the antics of Stammering Elon.

ezchili ,

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

ours ,

I love to watch expensive garbage burn.

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

kumatomic ,

Undeserved reputation built on actually intelligent people that worked for him.

Elonkilledmydad ,

Don’t block me though, please

MSids ,

I’m into it. All of the news is bad news for him and I love it. It’s like a house burning for a year and I just like checking in on it every few days.

5BC2E7 ,

We need some form of moderation but I think it’s going to be pretty unpleasant given that the fediverse is very appealing to the doomer mindset. I am also surprised at the amount of people that actually think that social media is technology

waspentalive , (edited )

Anyone who is posting an ad for something but not paying the instance any ad-price is stealing advertising. Ads for salient things might be acceptable, like an ad for a text editor in a programming forum, but non-salient ads should be quickly deleted, no one is here to buy into a time-share, pick up on the latest deals from China, or to get the latest snake-oil.

https://lemmy.one/pictrs/image/489ae1ba-d18d-4d8e-8d77-e585813a13a8.png

realitista ,

Yes please. My downvote finger is getting sore.

1984 ,
@1984@lemmy.today avatar

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.

loobkoob ,
@loobkoob@kbin.social avatar

They're not asking for it to be banned from the instance, or from Lemmy entirely; they just want it to be moderated out of this community.

OrkneyKomodo ,

Yup. Was going to write the same.

UnspecificGravity ,

The whole point of having communities is to establish a focus of discussion. You wouldn’t come in here to talk about flower arranging.

ram ,
@ram@bookwormstory.social avatar

You just did.

Ghyste ,

Tell that to c/memes, please.

cloud ,

yes

lobut ,

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?

onlinepersona OP ,

A mod responded: lemmy.ml/comment/5330224

I think you should leave your input under their comment for them to consider.

hperrin ,

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.

mild_deviation ,

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.

hperrin ,

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.

xthexder ,
@xthexder@l.sw0.com avatar

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.

mild_deviation ,

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.

hperrin , (edited )

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.

waspentalive ,

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.

chicken ,

That seems like “business” more than technology

lobut ,

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

beejjorgensen ,
@beejjorgensen@lemmy.sdf.org avatar

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.

Mr_Blott ,

For those using the magnificent Sync - Settings shortcut: Filters > Keyword filters

Though you might miss out on some posts about aftershave that contains musk

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