madcat@lemm.ee 4 weeks ago
That’s how blocking and banning on the internet has always worked. When you block someone they just can’t reply to you. The way it was until now is just weird. Why would blocking an account prevent them from viewing your public posts!? “Stalkers” can always make another account.
can@sh.itjust.works 4 weeks ago
I’m wondering the same thing. I never really used Twitter, couldn’t people just stalk without being logged in? Or was this to weed out the least motivated stalkers?
madcat@lemm.ee 4 weeks ago
Yes, you can. That’s why it was even dumber.
NotMyOldRedditName@lemmy.world 4 weeks ago
There a lot of reasons to hate Elon. He’s making new reasons every day lately.
A lot of people hate him for completely bs reasons like this though and then come off as hating anything he does just for the sake of hating him.
PlainSimpleGarak@lemm.ee 4 weeks ago
No one on Lemmy is upset about this. It only provides them an opportunity to increase their hate boner for Musk.
I created a filter to block all posts with “Elon Musk” in the title. It appears I have some updates to make.
zarkanian@sh.itjust.works 4 weeks ago
You used to. Not anymore. Musk made it so that if you try to view somebody’s profile, and you aren’t logged in, you don’t see anything except for a big box asking you to log in.
Also, it’s not so much about stalking per se, but being able to reshare posts (and thus bully) their targets. The way X is right now, they’d have to have a direct link to the post in question and then screenshot it.
can@sh.itjust.works 4 weeks ago
I see. Guess that explains why back when reddit changed their blocking to this way people complained