I think if you blocked the person who posted this you’d see a big reduction. It’s usually the same account posting Musk news.
snek@lemmy.world 5 months ago
Has anyone made any peace of technology that could block Elon Musk news? I understand he is currently ruining the world at full speed, but for fuck’s sake, some of us don’t think this is tech news worthy and it’s frankly annoying. He makes it to every paper, then to every news forum. Yuck. Enough Musk spam… you are only doing him favors, even when the news is bad. There is no such thing as bad publicity.
bilb@lem.monster 5 months ago
snek@lemmy.world 5 months ago
Very good tip, thank you, stranger.
BobGnarley@lemm.ee 5 months ago
You realize that you are in a technology news section of Lemmy, right? This dude influences technology.
snek@lemmy.world 5 months ago
Does he though? Seems like it’s mostly him failing at business.
Anyway, the news coverage of him is unbalanced because it’s his plan to be on the news constantly and forever.
ExLisper@linux.community 5 months ago
The solution lies between the monitor and to left mouse button.
WhiteWolfLT@pawb.social 5 months ago
Well no, I think bad publicity is a thing, with current cancel culture for saying the wrong things, it can ruin your career. Also pedo allegations do hit hard.
snek@lemmy.world 5 months ago
If this was the case, Musk’s career would have been over.
Instead this publicity fuels him and his wasteful endeavors.
qarbone@lemmy.world 5 months ago
Your career can only be ruined if you rely on other people to fund your career. He has enough money (and loans and solvent businesses he hasn’t decided to tank yet) independently to keep going when others would have had to pack up.
You think any other non-billionaire could weather the absolute drain of most advertisers leaving Twitter?
snek@lemmy.world 5 months ago
Your career can’t be easily ruined if you shit gold.
In a fair world, Musk would be rotting in some sewer.
dlok@lemmy.world 5 months ago
I’ve seen a Firefox plugin called block the rich… I guess it wouldn’t fly if they called it block Elon
Not used it so don’t know if it’s any good
snek@lemmy.world 5 months ago
Will try now and report back!
snek@lemmy.world 5 months ago
It blocks these:
Block List Steve Ballmer Jeff Bezos Michael Bloomberg Sergey Brin Warren Buffett Larry Ellison Bill Gates Kanye “Ye” West Elon Musk Larry Page Donald Trump Mark Zuckerberg
Immediate observation: really cool, also blocks comments about Elon Musk (including my own lol) Sadly doesn’t block images
BobGnarley@lemm.ee 5 months ago
Yeah thats a great way to stay up to date with technology, just pretend they dont exist!
Gestrid@lemmy.ca 5 months ago
Does it block the word “Musk”? Is it case-sensitive? Honestly curious, especially since some of these last names can refer to either the person or a noun.