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[–] gravitas_deficiency@sh.itjust.works 180 points 2 months ago (1 children)

Pretty sure he’s doing this simply because he doesn’t like how many people have blocked him personally

[–] Cheems@lemmy.world 61 points 2 months ago (1 children)

Taylor Swift blocked him and he can't have that

He’s grumpy that she won’t see any additional jokes he makes about impregnating her

[–] Damage@feddit.it 168 points 2 months ago (7 children)
[–] bbuez@lemmy.world 45 points 2 months ago* (last edited 2 months ago) (2 children)

I've practically been groveling begging my girlfriend to switch.

Its not that bad just ignore the ads

Yeah I don't go in replies because it's always bots

There's still some things on there

She didn't really catch onto mastodon, discoverability is the problem imo. May try getting her onto bluesky even though it wouldn't be my pick. Some people just like whatever they currently have more than change - which maybe not being able to block like EVERY OTHER media platform may be a big enough change.

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[–] zecg@lemmy.world 64 points 2 months ago (6 children)

It's a win for humanity if it causes more people to leave and stop thinking it's a public forum.

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[–] Soup@lemmy.cafe 58 points 2 months ago (22 children)

Reminder: if you still have an account with that fucko’s service-

You support everthing he does.

[–] nonentity@sh.itjust.works 16 points 2 months ago

I’ve kept my account because it’s a sought after username. Deleting it would allow some grifter to take it over. It also predates both Elmo’s and the original Twitter accounts.

I’ve not posted anything under it since the third party apps were blocked.

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[–] palordrolap@fedia.io 45 points 2 months ago (2 children)

If the block feature goes away, I guarantee it will come back for - at the very least - the highest tier of paid accounts almost immediately afterwards.

I can't imagine any of the large corps that still use Xitter for customer communication will be happy not being able to block serial trolls. Or people with legitimate grievances who won't go away.

[–] dhhyfddehhfyy4673@fedia.io 12 points 2 months ago (1 children)

the block function will block that account from engaging with, but not block seeing, a public post

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[–] SilentStorms@lemmy.dbzer0.com 41 points 2 months ago (1 children)

I'm pretty sure both the App Store and the Google Play Store both require social media apps to have a block feature. Will be interesting to see what happens if he goes through with this.

[–] AWittyUsername@lemmy.world 32 points 2 months ago (1 children)

Absolutely nothing. Rules on those stores are only for the little guys

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[–] GenosseFlosse@feddit.org 40 points 2 months ago (1 children)

The delete account button is still there.

[–] xthexder@l.sw0.com 8 points 2 months ago

I'd say "for now", but at least we've got the EU protecting us from that possibility.

[–] moon@lemmy.cafe 33 points 2 months ago (4 children)

The ones who are most vulnerable to this change are the ones who especially should've left this platform already. I'm sorry, but they're not being forced to use it, and everyone should leave it. I don't have much sympathy or care about wanting to make an alt-right social media platform safer, I want it to crash and burn.

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[–] Sibbo@sopuli.xyz 31 points 2 months ago (1 children)

I thought Twitter was once forced but a court to enable blocking for all users against all users. Isn't this why we are able to block advertisers?

[–] sibachian@lemmy.ml 8 points 2 months ago

i seem to remember something similar. and blocking advertisers seems like it should be common law but i guess chrome killing adblockers takes predesence.

[–] smokebuddy 30 points 2 months ago (1 children)

When I comment that Twitter is trash and I'd never use it, the response I often get is 'it's actually pretty good after you block all the trolls and bots and corporate accounts and politicians and blue checks'... 🙄

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[–] daniskarma@lemmy.dbzer0.com 28 points 2 months ago* (last edited 2 months ago)

Remember to contact your political representative and express your concerns on any public organization account having an account on twitter. Also contact any journali of a media you use to read/watch and express the same concern.

Once politics and journalists get out of twitter is game over.

[–] FJW@discuss.tchncs.de 27 points 2 months ago (4 children)

As much as I despise Musk and Twitter and hope that both die a painful death, what is actually proposed here is honestly a change for the better: It’s not about preventing people from blocking users, it’s about blocked users being able to see public posts, which they could also see by just logging out. This is being honest about what a block does and avoids giving people a wrong sense of privacy that they simply don’t have on the platform. From what I’ve heard there is a possibility to post for followers-only which in combination with requiring approval to follow and that isn’t going away here either…

[–] FooBarrington@lemmy.world 36 points 2 months ago (6 children)

Twitter massively reduced visibility for logged-out users, so just logging out doesn't help, you have to log into a different account. This additional fraction reduces the amount of harassment a lot. Not sure that being "more honest" is worth the price, especially when an info box could achieve the same without making harassment easier.

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[–] bitjunkie@lemmy.world 23 points 2 months ago (1 children)

At this point if you're still on Shitter you kinda deserve whatever you get

[–] dantheclamman@lemmy.world 11 points 2 months ago (1 children)

I agree that X is enemy territory now, but in a world where billionaires can buy up all the major means of communication, it doesn't feel like enough to just close up our accounts and move on. They can follow us wherever our accounts go and buy platforms out from under us. Lemmy and Mastodon are slightly better as open decentralized platforms, but they still could be attacked by Musk if he had the initiative to.

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[–] twig@lemmy.dbzer0.com 22 points 2 months ago

People need to get the fuck off twitter.

[–] Iloveyurianime@ani.social 22 points 2 months ago (3 children)

Why the fuck does elon want to remove the block button on twitter like WHY????

[–] NikkiDimes@lemmy.world 35 points 2 months ago (2 children)

So people can't block him, I imagine.

[–] otp@sh.itjust.works 14 points 2 months ago

That was the one action I took on Twitter after creating an account before my account got banned.

I needed to create an account to check a local source for updates. So I did. I also decided to look around on Twitter to see what I was "missing". Saw a bunch of Musk stuff and instantly knew I didn't want to see any of it. So I blocked him.

In a few weeks, when I clicked a Twitter link, it said my account had been banned for suspicious activity. It had a secure password and this was its second log-in ever (no posts, comments, reactions, etc).

[–] Tamo240@programming.dev 8 points 2 months ago (3 children)

Pretty sure you already can't block him specifically, I'm not on Xitter but have heard from several people this is the case.

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[–] Kolanaki@yiffit.net 16 points 2 months ago

So he can tell women how he will give them babies or horses.

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[–] mastazi@lemmy.world 19 points 2 months ago

I have started to actively avoid brands, journalists etc. who still use Twitter as their primary social media presence.

[–] state_electrician@discuss.tchncs.de 19 points 2 months ago (1 children)

You can always count on this twat to do the dumbest, shittiest thing he can.

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[–] Facebones@reddthat.com 14 points 2 months ago

Meanwhile, everybody will continue to refuse to leave the platform, further showing Elon that there is no price too high for people.

[–] DarkThoughts@fedia.io 12 points 2 months ago (2 children)

I swear I've read this exact headline a year or so ago already.

[–] mosiacmango@lemm.ee 16 points 2 months ago

He keeps floating it, but hasent done it yet.

They clearly have internal data that top alt right posters are getting blocked too much for Musk's tastes, so here it is again.

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[–] billwashere@lemmy.world 11 points 2 months ago

I swear sometime he really seems like he is personally trying to kill twitter/x/xitter whatever it’s called.

[–] Mandy@sh.itjust.works 9 points 2 months ago (3 children)

Bet both my ovaries he just wants to stop using apt to look at all the people who blocked him

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[–] tal 9 points 2 months ago* (last edited 2 months ago) (3 children)

The billionaire this week posted his hoped-for change that “the block function will block that account from engaging with, but not block seeing, a public post”.

If I understand the change aright, that's an excellent move in my book.

What it sounds like Twitter is doing now is how Reddit used to work. When you ignore a user, you won't see their responses, but other users can.

Then Reddit changed it to "blocked user cannot respond", which people on Reddit promptly started abusing to, in heated arguments, make a comment and then promptly block the other person, so that it looked like they weren't responding. You wound up with people commenting all over a thread with stuff like "this user blocked me, but here's my response to this other comment". Was one of the several major moves that Reddit made that I think were in error and made me less happy with the site.

Lemmy works the same way Reddit originally did as well; that's how I'd want social media to generally work.

EDIT: It might also be that this is only a partial move in that direction, so that a block prevents a user from responding but not seeing a post. If so, that'd be an improvement, I think, but not as far as I'd like things to change.

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[–] beebarfbadger@lemmy.world 9 points 2 months ago* (last edited 2 months ago)

Sacre bleu! It's almost like the free speech warrior does not know that the other aspect of free speech besides speaking freely is being able to choose whom to listen to! Does he think free speech means being forced to listen to specific people speak?

Surprised. Pikachu. Face.

[–] big_slap@lemmy.world 9 points 2 months ago (5 children)

other than userbase, what does twitter have that mastodon does not have? genuinely curious

[–] Cephalotrocity@biglemmowski.win 15 points 2 months ago (3 children)

Better media and infrastructure support, name recognition, corporate privacy issues instead of no privacy whatsoever, ads, pay-to-win social 'cred' (blue check-mark), an insane leader, and an algorithm controlling your content.

[–] big_slap@lemmy.world 11 points 2 months ago (3 children)

Better media and infrastructure support

the only positive you've stated lol. man, do I wish the fediverse would take off

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