can we please keep this community about technology and not Twitter/X and elon news?

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That's an even bigger contentious debate. And the fact that there is no one mutually agreed on answer means we either need a formal definition in the rules or the people in this community need to understand that there are people that exist with a broader or narrower definition of technology than they have.

That said, like it or not, go to any major tech blog, podcast, YouTuber, and they all talking about X / Twitter. The tech communities outside of Lemmy have all agreed that Twitter / X is technology. And Lemmy doesn't live in a bubble.

The tech communities outside of Lemmy have all agreed that Twitter / X is technology.

This is an "appeal to authority" logical fallacy.

Personally I think an argument that "Twitter / X is technology" is a very, very difficult argument to make. It's a social media company. Is every company that has a website "tech"?

It's also a generalisation. Perhaps if twitter invented a new decentralised database that might be "tech", but marketing decisions are not.

Marketing decisions of a tech company are valid to be discussed. We discuss marketing and other business decisions of many tech companies and will continue to do so. Your argument is invalid - you're not the arbiter of what are and what aren't valid discussion subjects.

How is twitter a tech company ?

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