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[–] alyaza@beehaw.org 135 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (8 children)

it's unavoidable to center Elon here but can we just take a step back and appreciate how stupid, bad, and completely antithetical to a usable website this idea is? blocking has been a feature on like everything since phpBB forums because it literally just works. it's an easy way to curate your experience without escalating and it's a logical imitation of being able to simply avoid a person in real life. the idea of removing this in favor of nothing but mutes is just goofy as fuck (and if you make muting the new "block", what's even the difference between them? people will just use them basically the same way!).

[–] LadyAutumn@lemmy.blahaj.zone 58 points 1 year ago (2 children)

Muting means other people can still comment on your stuff, and everyone else but you can see it.

Its so transphobes and homophobes can continue commenting on LGBT people's content.

[–] dingus@lemmy.ml 43 points 1 year ago (3 children)

Elon Musk really fucking hates his trans daughter. Dad of the century, right here.

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[–] DarraignTheSane@lemmy.ml 21 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (2 children)

Lemmy's "block" is essentially a "mute" function, too. It makes it so that you don't see any more content from a user, but they can still make comments on your stuff.

[–] alyaza@beehaw.org 21 points 1 year ago (2 children)

lemmy, at least, would have the excuse of being constantly a work in progress and i guess that not having such a large community that hard blocking is necessary. but twitter would be appallingly bad without blocks--it already is with them!

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[–] dingus@lemmy.ml 33 points 1 year ago (4 children)

It's interesting to me that they made the argument that blocking is increasing server costs.

  1. How is that even possible, on a technical level?
  2. If true, how is changing to a "stronger mute" going to reduce said costs?

I mean, it's plainly clear that Musk has no idea what is going on at any of his companies and the narrative of him being a genius of some kind was simply that: a narrative.

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[–] lemme@lemmy.ml 25 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

logical

Stop right there. This is Elon Musk we are talking about

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[–] NoxiousPluK@lemmy.blahaj.zone 56 points 1 year ago (2 children)

Fun fact: a block feature is required to be accepted by the Apple AppStore review process. So Twitter will disappear from Apple devices with this change.

[–] StrayCatFrump@beehaw.org 20 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

Hmm. Hate to be a downer, but that sounds like there needs to be a way for the service itself to block (ban) users and material, not for users to be able to block other users. So I wouldn't be too optimistic about Apple's response....

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[–] HexesofVexes@lemmy.world 43 points 1 year ago (2 children)

Wow...

Is there some kind of tech CEO competition running or something?

"Who can alienate their user base the fastest"

[–] surewhynotlem@lemmy.world 22 points 1 year ago (9 children)

There's a saying, " never attribute to malice what is easily explained by incompetence".

But we're quickly reaching the point where it's no longer easily explained incompetence. Elon is either the most incompetent person in the known universe, which is saying a lot, or he's doing this on purpose for some reason.

I'm not into conspiracies, but it's starting to make more sense if he's actively trying to tank the stock.

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[–] Butterbee@beehaw.org 38 points 1 year ago (4 children)

So what you're saying is, if I have a Twitter account and I start blocking many MANY people it costs Elon money? Interesting.

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[–] UngodlyAudrey@beehaw.org 37 points 1 year ago (4 children)

As a member of a rather vulnerable minority, I had made pretty liberal use of the block feature on Twitter. Of course, I left when Musk took over and switched to Mastodon, but my account's still there. I didn't delete it or anything. Might have to now.

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[–] bizzwell@lemmy.world 34 points 1 year ago (7 children)

I really hope platforms like Lemmy and Mastodon take off. Just the idea of no single person with control over how we all communicate and share ideas gives me hope for the future.

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[–] SpookyBogMonster@lemmy.ml 34 points 1 year ago (2 children)

Watching major social media websites actively kill themselves has been nothing if not an experience

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[–] probodyne@feddit.uk 34 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Damnit, I knew I shouldn't have blocked him. Sorry guys this is my fault, I only had him muted before.

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[–] MasterKitty@lemmy.world 33 points 1 year ago (5 children)

Whats going on with social media CEOs making dumb decisions these days..

[–] vinniep@beehaw.org 29 points 1 year ago

Money. Tech was hot and trendy, so VCs were willing to continue pouring cash into a bottomless pit of unprofitable tech platforms, and now they're not so everyone has to figure out how to make money off of the community. In a surprise to absolutely no one that's been paying attention, companies filled with people that have never had to be profitable before are really bad at turning their company profitable and instead only manage to light large sections of it on fire. 🤷

[–] hglman@lemmy.world 19 points 1 year ago (2 children)

Conservative money thinks that they can keep there opposition off balance by smashing social networks . Musk did not launch desatitis campaign out of nowhere.

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[–] Skooshjones@vlemmy.net 17 points 1 year ago

At the top levels, they are rich and well-connected enough that they don't have to worry about failing like regular people.

They can burn millions, billions of dollars and still get out with a fat paycheck, a pat on the back, and another CEO/exec job lined up by one of their many wealthy friends. Either that, or they are "forced" into retirement where they live large for their remaining lives.

I wish somebody would force me into a wealthy retirement...

[–] cutecycle@beehaw.org 17 points 1 year ago

it's not about money. it's about power

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[–] DJDarren@beehaw.org 33 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Elon Musk is a gaping, farting anus. I pay as much attention to the sounds from a gaping, farting anus, as I do from him.

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[–] Gerula@lemmy.world 30 points 1 year ago (4 children)

Another great ideea from greatest Genius of our age! Of God how could we live without him until now! /s

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[–] Talmir@lemmy.ml 30 points 1 year ago (2 children)

So he's run out of engineers that know how to maintain the block feature?

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[–] breadsmasher@lemmy.world 29 points 1 year ago (5 children)

Elongated Muskrat has discovered just how many accounts are blocking him. His ego can’t take that. His FrEeSpEeCh must be heard

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[–] styxbane@beehaw.org 28 points 1 year ago

Hard pass. If I cannot block someone harassing me that's it. Thank God I already don't have the problem of using Twitter to begin with

[–] J_C___@sh.itjust.works 27 points 1 year ago (9 children)

Let's be real, he's doing this because he's upset about people blocking Twitter blue accounts, this in no way increases server costs or any bull shit like that

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[–] aka_oscar@beehaw.org 27 points 1 year ago (4 children)

Im honestly surprised twitter is still standing. Like how. How is it still going.

[–] SynapticOddity@lemmy.ml 17 points 1 year ago (2 children)

Yeah! I’m a little sad how resilient these toxic media companies are. Meta, twitter, Reddit, etc are really not good for humanity. But I guess humanity has always been toxic to itself.

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[–] hddsx@lemmy.world 27 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

"Hang on, Steve. Reddit can not and will not beat Twitter." -Elon

"Hold my beer, Elon! I'm probably going to shutdown the mobile reddit website." -Steve

[–] Skelectus@suppo.fi 26 points 1 year ago (2 children)

This has to be his worst decision at twitter so far.

[–] ndr@lemmy.world 20 points 1 year ago (2 children)
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[–] Mulligan@lemmy.ca 23 points 1 year ago

I’m not sure how many coffin nails that Elon may have left, but this is a big one.

[–] Anarch157a@lemmy.world 22 points 1 year ago

By this time, I thought he was out of feet to shoot, but he keeps finding new ones. Or maybe he's already at the "shooting myself in the knee" phase.

[–] voyteq@lemmy.world 21 points 1 year ago (2 children)

This reads like the Onion headline

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[–] literallyacat@beehaw.org 21 points 1 year ago (2 children)

Awww Musky’s feelings got hurt that so many people have blocked him on twitter lol

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[–] PoorlyShaveApe@beehaw.org 20 points 1 year ago (2 children)

I wonder if this is because many people on Twitter just automatically block anyone with a blue checkmark (paid) when they see a response and the trolls have their feelings hurt so they run to Musk shouting about how they paid to be heard so he should force people to unblock them. That's the kind of childish argument I would expect.

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[–] RipReddit@lemmy.world 19 points 1 year ago

Ha imagine using Twitter

[–] jherazob@beehaw.org 18 points 1 year ago (5 children)

Here's the context, bigots complaining about being blocked

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[–] direfield@lemmy.world 18 points 1 year ago (10 children)

Huh why ? This doesn't make sense

[–] MaxAmperage@lemmy.world 25 points 1 year ago (3 children)

There's been a big effort to block anybody with a blue checkmark since any major story or viral post will have them automatically bumped up to the top of the replies. So, when the whiners started complaining, he started openly considering this.

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[–] sub_@beehaw.org 18 points 1 year ago (3 children)

Yeah, totally expecting that. His aim of buying twitter, is to prop up a republican presidential candidate / authoritarians in other countries that can help him evade taxes and get more subsidies.

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[–] QuentinCallaghan@sopuli.xyz 18 points 1 year ago

Twitter's fundamental model of user interaction is said to be broken, and lots of things have been made to mitigate it. And now everything goes into the shitter because of Elon's hurt feelings.

[–] ErKaf@feddit.de 17 points 1 year ago

I smile every time when I see that Musky did some more stupid shit, because I know that every time he does shit like that, Mastodon grows more. And with that, the entire Fediverse gets stronger.

Go on Elon! Don't Stop please! Kill Twitter!

[–] Hamartiogonic@sopuli.xyz 17 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

Hey Twitter, it’s not a competition. You can get rid of your users at whatever pace suits you best. Even though Reddit is clearly speedrunning this game, and you’re getting left behind, doesn’t mean you have to double your efforts.

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