Can we stop talking about Elon Musk for a while please?

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[0]It is turning HN into another social media circus - sucking all energy, joy, mental bandwidth from other things here.All I am asking for is to let it go and not pay much attention to EM related stories for some time. They are precisely to elucidate a dopamine reaction and are no longer constructive.[0] I understand the irony about talking about not asking to talk about it. One way to go about is to not comment to this thread.

jacquesm · Accepted Answer

It is being discussed because a billionaire using their wealth to buy up a medium and then stomping all over it while trying to present themselves as a hero is something that bothers a lot of people, especially if those people spent a decade+ curating and posting on said platform. If it does not bother you then simply ignore the links and don't add to them.
This whole saga lays bare one of the big issues with big centralized tech that probably very few people saw coming prior to this acquisition, it is the largest such disaster since the collapse of Digg and MySpace, it is happening at breakneck speed and has the potential to do serious real world harm.
For a tech story on HN it is as relevant as can be.

avgDev · Answer

No.These are major events and I might want to discuss with the HN crowd. I want to see how this unfolds good or bad and there are lessons to be learned. If you are bothered by it you can just scroll past anything about Tesla/Twitter/SpaceX/Musk?I get 0 dopamine from learning that Twitter is banning journalists.

cc101 · Answer

It's what he is doing that is important. Reading about the man himself is nauseating. Again, what he is doing is very important, and it needs to be discussed.

nickthegreek · Answer

You are free to let it go and not engage with any story that you would like. Spend some time and develop an browser extension to block if you wish and post a Show HN. Your time is yours. And I implore you to use it how you see fit. However, some people might want to discuss when a huge social media company starts banning journalists and then runs polls it.

Zigurd · Answer

The former richest man on the planet who now owns a significant social media site is unraveling. Imagine if Howard Hughes live tweeted his descent into madness. Aviation geeks of that time would have been riveted.Good discussions happen here because people here understand things like Elon's unusually large percentage of tesla shares pledged against loans. This is where people have informed opinions about his other big bets, like Starship and Full Self Driving. This is where you will find the best predictions regarding when his Twitter adventure becomes unsustainable.

hindsightbias · Answer

The previous POTUS was able to leverage Twitter to win the office. While imo, the left and media played a critical role in that by amplifying his messages and starving his primary opponents of any way to compete.While I think all this attention is exactly what EM wants and would play into his hands if he was a true 4D genius, I don&rsquo;t think he is. But this is an ideological crusade with big outcomes so it&rsquo;s hard to figure out what the right path is.

dekhn · Answer

I think Hacker News as a site has some glaring deficiencies. One of them is that it doesn't have the ability to group a bunch of posts into a topic that doesn't pollute the main page with more than one small link.

gardenhedge · Answer

This is the first thing I've seen about Musk all day. Thanks OP..

gregjor · Answer

I want to learn more about elucidating a dopamine reaction.

sys42590 · Answer

From the last 90 submissions there seem to be >5% about Elon / Twitter. Why is everybody submissing stuff about that? Why the huge media coverage overall?Twitter was atrocious to use even before it was bought by Elon Musk. Without e.g. Nitter it was (and still is) even unusable to anybody not signed up and signed in.

MrWiffles · Answer

The first rule of Elon club is: YOU DO NOT TALK ABOUT ELON CLUB!;-)