[nomilk]

I'm personally a huge Elon fan, but I know many who are not and have heard from multiple sources that they can't get him out of their feeds no matter how hard they try. If you tweak your current idea to simply remove all Elon-related content from the feed, that would be funny but may also be strangely profitable (people would probably buy it out of spite).

[plaguuuuuu]

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[nomilk]

Leaving X is one way. But there is an intersection in the venn diagram between those who find X valuable and those who dislike Elon's content.

[ImJamal]

You won't get messages from Elon, but you will sure get a lot of messages about Elon since he lives rent free in so many people's mind.

[palmfacehn]

At the time of posting, I count 8 matches for "Elon" on this page and 23 comments. All of but one of the mentions has a negative sentiment.

[ImJamal]

To be clear, I think people who love Elon also have a problem. Neither side can stop thinking and talking about him. I would love to go one day without somebody talking about him on HN regardless of the sentiment.

[croisillon]

how dare they talk (badly!) about him in a thread about twitter!

[palmfacehn]

The above poster didn't elaborate when he mentioned, "Living rent free". If we are going to have a discourse on the topic, I think it deserves more depth.

He's a complicated figure. I'm not a fan of all of his ideas, nor do I consider him some kind of right-wing free speech savior. He's like anyone else in that there's some hit and miss. I do find it disturbing how quickly the predominantly left-leaning tech sphere turned on him. This coincided with politically driven media talking points.

A few short years ago he was celebrated for his association with green energy. He was even celebrated by the globalists at the WEF. For this and other reasons, I suspect his promotion to be something of a false alternative. Idolizing him seems a bit naive. The demonizations I regularly read on this site are often poorly reasoned or Godwinian hyperbole.

[felixgallo]

can you provide an example of the 'politically driven media talking points' that unfairly stained poor Elon's otherwise sterling reputation with the green, ah, globalists?

[croisillon]

is... is "globalist" a code word?

[delecti]

He's the owner of the site, in the inner circle of the incoming administration, and also the richest person in the world as global society is increasingly an oligarchy. That's hardly "living rent free in [one's] mind".

[ImJamal]

People were nonstop talking about him prior to being involved with Trump and Twitter and it has only gotten worse.