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Elon Musk Says Twitter Is Going To Get Rid Of The Block Feature, Enabling Greater Harassment
(www.techdirt.com)
I have him blocked. I can't stand seeing his posts!
this post was submitted on 11 Jun 2023
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I've blocked every ad I've ever seen on the app. I haven't used it in a while and I doubt I'll ever go back now.
The only thing left that I use it for is getting alerts about live police chases so I can tune in. Ill leave that going until those people move to other platforms.
Least destructive Elon moment
I think I get were the “server costs” come from. The twitter algorithm they pushed to GitHub FIRST gets a set of like a thousand tweets to show you, then filters them, getting rid of blocked accounts for example. If you use one of the large block lists, you know, to bypass the lack of moderation, there is the “risk” that they neeed to do another request to get enough content to fill your front page of irrelevant stuff you don’t want to see.
RIP Twitter
I didn't know Elon joined Mastodon's marketing team!
Is advertising revenue so important to them they're willing to sacrifice literally everything else for it?
If it's not easy to use reddit, who will use reddit?
If it’s not easy to use reddit, who will use reddit?
The same people who hooted and hollered about Netflix ending password sharing and then went ahead and made their own account anyway because they can't be arsed to read a book or find something else to do to fill their sad little lives.
Why do you feel the need to put down people who caved to the new restrictions?
Wouldn't this open Twitter up to harassment charges? I mean, it's Musk so it is obviously an ego thing and not a well thought out idea, but couldn't someone sue because they can no longer block someone tweeting hateful things to them?
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Up next, everyone who joins Twitter gets a free king Cobra delivered to them at a random point in the future.
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WTF is “a stronger form of mute?”
E-gun
It probably means you can’t prevent someone with Twitter Blue to show up in your timeline.
I mean, why would you be surprised at anything at this point?
It's sad seeing Twitter take such a nose dive (more so then it already has). I met quite a fee friends on the platform and, despite it's many, many, MANY flaws, was still nice to be on when you interacted with friends. I hope my friends start using more decentralized social media soon with how much of a toxic environment Elon is trying to foster