I am confident in saying that your Redditsphere, like mine, is absolutely NOT representative of any general population. Hacker News is obviously even less so.
Log out of Twitter if you have one, find an Elon tweet, and start reading the tens of thousands of comments.
Bonus, if you have a well-curated account: log back in and read what comments automatically get pushed to the top. For me, it's a ton of accounts I follow being critical of Elon's takes on stuff.
You're talking about looking at replies to Elon tweets, but it's kind of a given that they're more likely to be Musk supporters simply because most healthy people don't follow or obsessively pay attention to someone they don't like?
Indeed. Demonstrating that a biased sample can generate either side of this perspective. Especially with my login/logout example. You can see all this disagreement (my followers) or all this agreement (his followers)
Log out of Twitter if you have one, find an Elon tweet, and start reading the tens of thousands of comments.
Bonus, if you have a well-curated account: log back in and read what comments automatically get pushed to the top. For me, it's a ton of accounts I follow being critical of Elon's takes on stuff.