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This is incredibly consistent with the “free speech” crowd thinking free speech entitles you to an audience.
Unreal. It’s not even incompetence, he really is just tanking the site on purpose.
I blocked elon musk long time ago…
I havnt logged into twitter since he bought it though. Cant remember if i dleeted my user
Yet another reason to be glad I quit using it in October 2022.
There’s no good reason to make people interact with people who are bothering them.
I am so glad I ditched twitter when Musk took over. Blocking abusive people is a critical function on that cesspool of a social medium.
I gave him the benefit of the doubt when he took over, but it’s clear that he’s completely mental.
The original owners of Twitter were forever fixing what wasn’t broken, but this guy is acting like he’s got a new Stretch Armstrong toy and wants to see how far he can stretch it before it breaks.
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.
I suspect this is mainly because people with the Blue checks keep crying about getting blocked.
Working as intended. Musk isn’t half as smart as he thinks he is, but he’s still not stupid enough to think it will play out any way.
He wants to ensure far-right voices are heard and that any opposition to them is bullied off the platform.
There is no need to give him the benefit of the doubt just because he doesn’t admit it out loud. Actions speak louder than words and every action he has taken has pandered to the far-right.
Agreed. Twitter will just be another extreme right shithole.
It’s such a shame. Twitter has been around for so long and had been vital for many peoples careers and connections. I hate what he’s done with it. =(
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.
Edit: Responding directly onto your posts - good point, I hadn’t considered that. It’s partially circumvented by changing the setting so can comment on your posts, but I agree that’s more effort. For all the other things though - if you block someone now they can just take a screenshot of your tweet and comment on that.
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.
As long as mute still gets their posts out of my feed it’s all fine by me I guess. I can’t figure out what’s the downside here. I couldn’t care less if the people I’ve muted can see my profile or not. Preventing individual users from accessing your profile is kind of petty to be honest.
They still can comment on your stuff and create hate bandwagons. This is actually pretty common.
Lmao this is overlooking the most important part of the block feature. Without the Block feature spammers, scammers, and crazies can destroy anyones posts by filling it with dick pics, scams, gore, anything. Blocks prevent people from posting on your posts.
Without the Block feature spammers, scammers, and crazies can destroy anyones posts by filling it with dick pics, scams, gore, anything.
Pretty sure they’d only destroy their own account with that - they’d be 1 report away from being banned. If none of your followers were to report it, it’s probably time to cancel your account.
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
Fair enough. I never used the algorithm timeline that inserts strangers into your stream so that was never an issue for me. Just the people I follow, chronologically, for me. Whether I block them or not, people who really want to would still be able to read my tweets. Blocking them just gives them more acknowledgement than they deserve.
I haven’t deleted mine yet, but I only seldom check it. Left this video as a pinned post though, it might inspire some people to quit as well.
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It won’t get buried if we all vote for it
Even if it really didn’t make sense, wouldn’t it be more sensible to… Idk… Just leave it alone and not spend the time to get rid of it? Lol
removed by mod
Yeah sensible but they should allow to not show on the home feed for a profile
If you’re still using Twitter, not only are you part of the problem, you like the abuse.
What could possibly go wrong.
Probably spelled “cents” incorrectly.
He is actually, seriously saying “I don’t get it, so it must be bad/unnecessary”
His ego can’t handle that he’s probably the most blocked person on Twitter
Agree, I think that’s probably the driving force behind this. He can’t troll most people anymore because any even remotely sane person (who’s still on Twitter for some reason) has blocked him. Musk lives to troll, so it must drive him absolutely crazy.
