“Most blocked person in Twitter thinks blocking people is bad”
Twitter/X removing the block feature
Submitted 1 year ago by mastermind@lemm.ee to technology@lemmy.world
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agitatedpotato@lemmy.dbzer0.com 1 year ago
RustedSwitch@lemmy.world 1 year ago
I’d love to know who actually has this honor - I would guess Trump myself, but Elmu is a good guess too
agitatedpotato@lemmy.dbzer0.com 1 year ago
I guess him because he had been promoting his own tweets so much so that they started showing up on my twitter porn account and that doesn’t follow anyone with clothes on, but I started getting elon tweets daily. I imagine many others did the same.
ladel@feddit.uk 1 year ago
I’m pretty sure he blocks people himself - I wonder if he’ll remove it from his own account too
Khanzarate@lemmy.world 1 year ago
He’ll just ban the account instead, now. Maybe even say that it would be a block, but “that makes no sense”.
ThisIsAManWhoKnowsHowToGling@lemmy.dbzer0.com 1 year ago
What in the actual full does he think is going to happen
uwe@lemmy.world 1 year ago
I have him blocked. It’s my fault. He noticed and now he is going to axe the whole feature
band_on_the_run@lemmy.world 1 year ago
Damn you! (I’m gonna blame you even though I blocked him too.)
sab@lemmy.world 1 year ago
Damn it, uwe. This is why we can’t have nice things.
jsveiga@sh.itjust.works 1 year ago
He’s going to be able to harass everyone that had blocked him.
Fiivemacs@lemmy.ca 1 year ago
I bet he will still be able to block users without them knowing too
Spike@feddit.de 1 year ago
Next, deleting your account gets axed. Feature makes no sense.
Hank@kbin.social 1 year ago
Maybe he wants to get rid off the somewhat smart people on Twitter so the rest can be easily radicalized with the intend that they vote against their interest and for the interests of rich people?
I'd say it's either that or he wants greater reach to feed his narcism.
Chenzo@lemmy.world 1 year ago
So… Wait.
This means someone can just @ someone else and destroy their feed with hate or dick pics or whatever?!
PeleSpirit@lemmy.world 1 year ago
I’ll bet doxxing is allowed now too, there’s no way he has people to stop that.
NevermindNoMind@lemmy.world 1 year ago
Mr. “assassination coordinates” said he was going to live stream driving to Zucks house to fight him, which would effectively doxx Zuck. Expecting logical consistency is silly.
Semi-Hemi-Demigod@kbin.social 1 year ago
He's started asking for driver's licenses now so maybe he's gonna dox people
gravitas_deficiency@sh.itjust.works 1 year ago
Yep, I think so. And “someone else” includes Elon.
Do with that information what you will :D
FaeDrifter@midwest.social 1 year ago
What I suspect will happen is that Musk cronies will be free to harass anyone they want, but anyone harassing Musk or one of this cronies will be banned.
pumpsnabben@sopuli.xyz 1 year ago
How does mute work?
ZILtoid1991@kbin.social 1 year ago
Blue checks will complain about it, then want a feature to get around that.
Chenzo@lemmy.world 1 year ago
what’s the difference between block and mute? Block just lets them not see your feed and notifies them of this, but mute just hides anything they post from you?
HuddaBudda@kbin.social 1 year ago
The block feature is not there out of the goodness of their CEO's heart.
It is there to limit liability from harassment. After all, why police harassment laws at your expense. When you can get the end user to enforce it for you.
It's just Dumb evil.
donuts@kbin.social 1 year ago
I recommend just blocking the entirely of Xwitter. Your life will be better off.
sab@lemmy.world 1 year ago
This is going to get buried, but I think it’s important to note that block on twitter (unlike on most platforms) works both ways. You can still mute an account, and you won’t see any of their content or mentions.
By removing block, it means you can no longer block a person from following you, but you can still prevent seeing their stuff. After all - all that person has to do see your public tweets is open an incognito browser window, and view your profile. If you have a private profile, none of this applies to begin with. So in that sense, I agree with Elon - block in its current form on twitter makes no sense.
givesomefucks@lemmy.world 1 year ago
After all - all that person has to do see your public tweets is open an incognito browser window, and view your profile.
Pretty sure you have to sign in, or will very soon.
And people can likely still retweet, you just won’t see it.
So Ben Shapiro can still retweet everything AOC says to “slam” her, and only the people who haven’t muted him (his fans) can circlejerk and post harassing replies. She just wouldn’t see it.
TORFdot0@lemmy.world 1 year ago
Block also blocks them from seeing your posts and responding to them. Which is valuable. I don’t want people to creep on my profile if I’ve blocked them.
I use mute to get people who tweet in the wrong language off my timeline.
I deleted my twitter so I guess it’s not my problem now
Silverseren@kbin.social 1 year ago
The block "feature" is a required tool for being listed on the Google and Apple stores, among others.
Removing it will get Twitter delisted from them as well.
STUPIDVIPGUY@sopuli.xyz 1 year ago
Musk is intentionally killing twitter confirmed. First he tried to tank its value and retract his buy offer but was forced in to the purchase by the SEC. So now he’s just playing the long game by killing it step by step with his own hands.
Osirus@sh.itjust.works 1 year ago
Why couldn’t he just shut it down if he wanted to? What’s the purpose of wasting that much money slowly?
givesomefucks@lemmy.world 1 year ago
If he shut it down then the masses would flood to a handful of new options and a replacement would emerge in a week or two.
By dragging it out, it slows that down.
Also, if he shut it down, he’d get a week or two of headlines. This way he can milk a year of it.
snooggums@kbin.social 1 year ago
Attention!
veloxy@lemm.ee 1 year ago
Maybe his 3d chess move is trying to push everyone to federated apps, what a great guy!
sulungskwa@lemmy.world 1 year ago
Really its just devolving into a fascinating experiment in how much momentum it requires people to leave a platform en masse in 2023.
ZILtoid1991@kbin.social 1 year ago
He wants to turn it into Stormfront.
veloxy@lemm.ee 1 year ago
He’s probably having a fit over everyone blocking him from their feeds
FoundTheVegan@kbin.social 1 year ago
It makes NO SENSE to block me. I'm so smart!
AlbinJose6723@eviltoast.org 2 months ago
And am removing ‘X’ from my phone 😇
FatTony@discuss.online 1 year ago
This is hardly about technology now is it?
LEDZeppelin@lemmy.world 1 year ago
It never was 🌎 👩🚀🔫👩🚀
CrypticFawn@lemmy.dbzer0.com 1 year ago
Holy shit. The block feature was the only function that actually worked when dealing with trolls and assholes.
Remove that feature, and the remaining Queer and POC communities are going to be forced off the platform due to the abuse they will not be able to block.
Elon is legit trying to destroy Twitter.
AnonTwo@kbin.social 1 year ago
Block makes sense. He knows it makes no sense. Block has existed on the internet long enough to assume this is completely malicious intent.
Nougat@kbin.social 1 year ago
Yeah, it's literally "You're going to be forced to consume content you don't want to" and "People wil now be able to harass you publicly."
DreamySweet@lemmy.sdf.org 1 year ago
You can mute people you don’t want to see posts from instead.
pumpsnabben@sopuli.xyz 1 year ago
Why isn’t the mute function enough?
I actually never understood why the block function existed, it clearly told the account you blocked that you have blocked them, prompting them to create an alt.
Mute is like shadowban, you won’t ever see them and they believe that you can see them.
TheSaneWriter@lemmy.thesanewriter.com 1 year ago
It makes no sense.
I truly can’t imagine how this is true. It’s such a simple thing to understand.
46_and_2@lemmy.world 1 year ago
That’s why I deleted my Twitter. It makes no sense.
PenguBlue@lemmy.ca 1 year ago
Hasn’t Elon blocked people before tho? And even been public when blocking some people?
driving_crooner@lemmy.eco.br 1 year ago
Don’t worry, he’s going to be able to keep it doing in the meantime it becomes a premium feature.
iforgotmyinstance@lemmy.world 1 year ago
So no one will be able to stop the firehose of neonazi propaganda?
Advertisers loving that?
Luci@lemmy.ca 1 year ago
As I only used Twitter to troll right wingers, this change might bring me back.
avidamoeba@lemmy.ca 1 year ago
Perfect opportunity for the Hexbear brigade.
DeathWearsANecktie@lemm.ee 1 year ago
Blocking makes perfect sense
sndmn@lemmy.ca 1 year ago
I expect he just found out he’s the most blocked person on the platform.
Arotrios@kbin.social 1 year ago
I'm sure this will will end
wellLEDZeppelin@lemmy.world 1 year ago
I would have given two fucks about this if I was still on Xitter.
Smacks@lemmy.world 1 year ago
He’ll make it a premium feature
Pacers31Colts18@lemm.ee 1 year ago
Can we defederate from Twitter/X already?
EliteCaster@lemmy.world 1 year ago
I think this is what’s gonna finally end it for Twitter. There has already been a huge increase in harassment/hate, and if people can’t block other users spewing that shit, they will actually leave this time
Gikiski@fedia.io 1 year ago
Probably spelled "cents" incorrectly.
Graphine@lemmy.world 1 year ago
Is he on fucking meth?
RanchOnPancakes@lemmy.world 1 year ago
I’m kind of tired of hearing about what this dummy is up to. He’s very rich. But clearly very dumb. He took emerald mine money and lucked his way into some good investments. Bought his way into Tesla and pretends to be very smart.
Thats not to say every idea he has had is bad. But he is clearly not a smart man overall.
Decimit@lemm.ee 1 year ago
So he’s pulling an Elon again.
M_Reimer@lemmy.world 1 year ago
Can we just pretend that Twitter no longer exists?
All that Elon Musk still tries here is how far he has to go until Twitter finally collapses.
WarmSoda@lemm.ee 1 year ago
Also, can we stop polluting the tech comms with this crap? Why are people posting this stuff here again? We were perfectly fine for awhile with no musk Twitter shit posts.
Spike@feddit.de 1 year ago
Just block it. Wait, no, that “feature” makes no sense.
Non-shitpost: I know everyone is annoyed by now, but Ex-Twitter is a huge website and relevant?
ShellMonkey@lemmy.socdojo.com 1 year ago
The Comnect android app has a keyeord filter. Would seem easy enough to just put ‘musk’ inthere and unless you have an interest in muskies, muskrats, or some men’s cologne lines it would filter things pretty cleanly.
twistedtxb@lemmy.ca 1 year ago
YES PLEASE. I fucking swear about 15% of the posts here are about Elon.
People need to ignore this prick and move on with their lives
roi@lemmy.blahaj.zone 1 year ago
I love Elon though! He is so smart with business!!🦅🦅🦅🦅🦅
TwilightVulpine@lemmy.world 1 year ago
Not for as long as it’s relevant to hundreds of millions of people.
But I would agree that “Elon says he’s going to do it” is not much of news until it actually happens.
plz1@lemmy.world 1 year ago
I down vote any post on here that mentions X, Twitter, or Elon, usually without even reading them. I made an exception to post this reply, but did down vote the OP.
JustZ@lemmy.world 1 year ago
I upcoted this post and put of respect down voted it.