I actually kind of like hearing about his ongoing effort to waste billions of dollars and destroy his own platform, but the community is definitely misnamed. It contributes more Musk-related content than the rest of Lemmy put together.
On reddit I always thought some users were just fed up and kept saying they are fed up, so the ones interested in the circus made a sub that was supposed to contain all the Elon news and named it after the pleas of the other users: Enough Musk spam. That’s an explanation I made up in my head, but it might be right. It’s the only way the name would make sense.
My understanding is that it was created in response to a ton of Musk spam which was primarily positive, when he was first emerging as a popular figure. People got fed up with hearing about him, and started Enough Musk Spam to point out how absolutely terrible he actually is.
Nowadays, there’s much less positive Musk news, so it feels more like a misnomer. But it was started as an attempt to highlight how bad he is. Seems to have worked a bit, tbh.
Ah ok. I see. But other subs were still full of Musk news, even though they had created the sub. But I guess you can’t contain anything in just one sub.
I actually kind of like hearing about his ongoing effort to waste billions of dollars and destroy his own platform, but the community is definitely misnamed. It contributes more Musk-related content than the rest of Lemmy put together.
On reddit I always thought some users were just fed up and kept saying they are fed up, so the ones interested in the circus made a sub that was supposed to contain all the Elon news and named it after the pleas of the other users: Enough Musk spam. That’s an explanation I made up in my head, but it might be right. It’s the only way the name would make sense.
My understanding is that it was created in response to a ton of Musk spam which was primarily positive, when he was first emerging as a popular figure. People got fed up with hearing about him, and started Enough Musk Spam to point out how absolutely terrible he actually is.
Nowadays, there’s much less positive Musk news, so it feels more like a misnomer. But it was started as an attempt to highlight how bad he is. Seems to have worked a bit, tbh.
Ah ok. I see. But other subs were still full of Musk news, even though they had created the sub. But I guess you can’t contain anything in just one sub.
It’s not misnamed, it was named that intentionally to consolidate the Musk spam there so other users can block the community to avoid Musk.