We took a close look at Elon Musk’s more than 150 million followers on X aka Twitter. What we found is…concerning.

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Journalists are doing the world a serious disfavor by continuing to wank Elon off by using and reporting on a failed web company.

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Half of the active user base are journalists and think tankers. So small wonder they are more interested than the general public.

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He’s such a child. A creepy, creepy child.

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Is there a way to block content other than community and user yet? I’m getting really sick of hearing about Elon.

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Sync for Lemmy has keyword filtering:

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For other sync users, you can change those settings here

Settings shortcut: Filters > Keyword filters

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Neat

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That’s so cool.

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The best bet would be to make a feature request for a mobile client to add word/phrase filtering.

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I’d just like to be able to block bot posts

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I mean, I’m not a bot, tho. 🤨

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You can disable seeing bots on Lemmy, in your settings. Not sure if this carries over to apps though.

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You can in your settings.

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Is stopthatgirl7 a bot?

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I’ve just started blocking the user that posts it. Not the best solution, but it’s cutting a lot of it out if my feed

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This man is incorporating the same tactic that Trump has during his presidency: launch a psychopathic publicity stunt nearly every day, to get as much media coverage as possible. Negative attention is attention too, they don’t care. They just want to be talked about as much as possible and they seem to be doing an excellent job at accomplishing that.

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I call it the crazy girlfriend technique.

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When you follow the money, yes. Users who register’share’ the as adrevenue. You need to have a lot of exposure and followers to get the check written. Guess who’s getting more money …

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