Twitter/X removing the block feature

ThisIsAManWhoKnowsHowToGling , 10 months ago

What in the actual fuck does he think is going to happen

jsveiga , 10 months ago

He’s going to be able to harass everyone that had blocked him.

Fiivemacs , 10 months ago

I bet he will still be able to block users without them knowing too

jsveiga , 10 months ago

When you can pay to win, to always have the last word… He’ll let them know.

Spike , 10 months ago

Next, deleting your account gets axed. Feature makes no sense.

Trebach , 10 months ago

Immediately causing a shit storm from at least the EU, the UK, and California.

DarkenLM , 10 months ago

That would be a "Getting nuked from orbit by EU" speedrun.

uwe , 10 months 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 , 10 months ago

Damn you! (I’m gonna blame you even though I blocked him too.)

jonne , 10 months ago

I bet a ton of users blocked him that day he messed with the algorithm so much he was boosted into feeds that didn’t even follow him.

band_on_the_run , 10 months ago

Lol that’s exactly what happened to me. I blocked his dumb ass after that little stunt. Now he’s back. Ugh.

sab , 10 months ago

Damn it, uwe. This is why we can’t have nice things.

DarkWasp , 10 months ago

I could actually seeing that being the reason he’s doing this. Nothing a narcissist hates more than people ignoring them.

BrudderAaron , 10 months ago

This is PRECISELY the reason. He fired a lead engineer who told him they can’t control how many people engage with his tweets. So he made it so that EVERYONE gets to see his tweets in their feed. Queue mass blocking of him and now he’s upset.

gravitas_deficiency , 10 months ago

Lol oh my god, I think you’re 100% on the ball with that hypothesis. I honestly can’t think of a better explanation, and it absolutely fits with his narcissistic neuroses.

gravitas_deficiency , 10 months ago

I mean… I’m willing to fight this fight if he wants to play it that way. I’d be more than happy to make a lot more heinous troll accounts to spam him with, and I’m willing to bet that a lot of other people feel the same way.

GravityAce , 10 months ago

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SinningStromgald , 10 months ago

Probably gets hourly updates on followers, blockers, views etc.

pulaskiwasright , 10 months ago

He wants shitbag, astroturf, conservative, fascist “personalities” to be able to respond to and every prominent non-fascist post where they can be promoted to the top of the replies.

As a bonus, it will also help the astroturfing oil companies better kill environmental efforts.

Hank , 10 months 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.

M_Reimer , 10 months 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 , 10 months 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 , 10 months 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?

WarmSoda , 10 months ago (edited 10 months ago)

Relevant to what?

This conversation has had is back and forth far too many times. Twitter spam is not relevant to technology news. Him not blocking people has no barring on any form of new tech. It belongs in the !nomoremuskspam comms, that’s why that was created.

spongebue , 10 months ago

It became a platform in which the whole world communicated about anything and everything. Maybe it still is to an extent, but knocking down the world’s platform plank by plank isn’t an absurd thing to write about

WarmSoda , 10 months ago

I absolutely agree.
That doesn’t mean its had anything to do with technology. A business comm or the above mentioned spam community would be a better fit.

But like I said earlier that has been discussed a million times already. I’m not discussing it anymore.

Apex_Fail , 10 months ago

The Fediverse is already fractured and niche, are you saying that someone should fine the perfect 36 user community, that only those subscribers are knowledgeable about, to post this to? Or perhaps news about the global platform might be relevant in the largest technology community?

2 years ago Twitter was where news broke, now it is where we get to watch a billionaire go broke in real time.

If it bothers you so much, block all mentions of the platform, person, etc.

WarmSoda , 10 months ago (edited 10 months ago)

You’re right. Why bother having separate communities for different subjects and interests? That’s just stupid. How silly of us.

Thymos , 10 months ago

I think you meant !enoughmuskspam, right?

Anticorp , 10 months ago

It isn’t relevant to the billions of people who don’t use Twitter. At this point it’s just celebrity schadenfreude.

Apex_Fail , 10 months ago

I agree with you. Personally I like seeing the meltdown without having to actually visit the site. Same reason I appreciate seeing how Reddit has gone full Digg4.0 but haven’t visited the site since the 3rd Party Apps died.

This is/has a significant impact on technology and media.

ShellMonkey , 10 months 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.

WarmSoda , 10 months ago

Nah. I’d rather people posted relevant posts in comms.

But I didn’t know about the keyword filter, that is cool to have available. Thanks!

agitatedpotato , 10 months ago

It strikes me as wierd that you’d rather everyone else use the community the way you want it instead of just using a filter that makes it what you want it to be. Some people want to keep up with these things without following communities desicated to musk and they don’t have to agree to use this conmunity exactly the way you want it to be used.

WarmSoda , 10 months ago

Yeah, that’s me deciding everything on every comm. You got me.

null , 10 months ago

Where did they say “everything on every comm”?

WarmSoda , 10 months ago

Oh look, reddit arrived

null , 10 months ago

The irony of that statement is deafening.

jmp242 , 10 months ago

Not to be an idiot - but where should people post this stuff? I mean, I do find it interesting occasionally, and like to see what other’s think, not so much complaining that it was posted at all.

WarmSoda , 10 months ago

!enoughmuskspam

Ubermeisters , 10 months ago

It’s gotten to the point where I’ve even blocked the communities that are supposed to be making light of the fact that there’s too much musk spam… because I’m tired of all the musk spam…

Hrs irrelevant and nobody can change my mind. He can fuck right off idc.

Nachorella , 10 months ago

Twitter is a tech company like it or not.

Ubermeisters , 10 months ago

Twitter is kind of turning into the opposite of a tech company, none of their choices are based on technology

JustZ , 10 months ago

Social media, isn’t it? That’s not really tech or everything on the internet is tech.

twistedtxb , 10 months ago

YES PLEASE. I fucking swear it genuinely feels like about 15% of the posts here are about Elon.

People need to ignore this prick and move on with their lives

roi , 10 months ago

I love Elon though! He is so smart with business!!🦅🦅🦅🦅🦅

Anticorp , 10 months ago

It’s crazy that this could be genuine praise or scathing satire, exactly as it is written.

JustZ , 10 months ago

Those are the eagles coming to drop you into Mt. Doom.

plz1 , 10 months 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 , 10 months ago

I upvoted this post and then out of respect downvoted it.

plz1 , 10 months ago

Well played

obinice , 10 months ago

Twitter. stopped existing a long time ago, when it was bought out and gutted. It’s the gathering place of fascists now.

TwilightVulpine , 10 months 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.

Ghostalmedia , 10 months ago

I’m ok with drawing attention to this stuff. Every time more Twitter shit hits the news, Fediverse apps get another boost of users.

bauhaus , 10 months ago

https://lemmy.ml/pictrs/image/7f625fe9-0bb5-42ba-be09-69f525e5644b.jpeg

STUPIDVIPGUY , 10 months 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 , 10 months ago

Why couldn’t he just shut it down if he wanted to? What’s the purpose of wasting that much money slowly?

givesomefucks , 10 months 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.

AccidentalLemming , 10 months ago (edited 8 months ago)

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die444die , 10 months ago

Unless that’s exactly what they wanted. Keep in mind that people have used twitter to mobilize against oppression all over the world. The people in power could definitely be seen to benefit from its destruction. But it won’t matter, people will find other platforms to mobilize on if twitter doesn’t work for them.

snooggums , 10 months ago

Attention!

veloxy , 10 months ago (edited 10 months ago)

Maybe his 4D chess move is trying to push everyone to federated apps, what a great guy!

STUPIDVIPGUY , 10 months ago

He hated twitter for how effective it was in spreading awareness on progressive issues. Him and all the other billionaires want that platform split up, and it only costs him $44b, a fraction of his net worth.

ZILtoid1991 , 10 months ago

He wants to turn it into Stormfront.

sulungskwa , 10 months ago

Really its just devolving into a fascinating experiment in how much momentum it requires people to leave a platform en masse in 2023.

FatTony , 10 months ago

This is hardly about technology now is it?

LEDZeppelin , 10 months ago

It never was 🌎 👩‍🚀🔫👩‍🚀

donuts , 10 months ago

I recommend just blocking the entirely of Xwitter. Your life will be better off.

lrabbt , 10 months ago

Xitter*

captain_oni , 10 months ago

pronounced as “shitter”

ThePantser , 10 months ago

The X is pronounced as a Sh

agitatedpotato , 10 months ago

“Most blocked person on Twitter thinks blocking people is bad”

RustedSwitch , 10 months ago

I’d love to know who actually has this honor - I would guess Trump myself, but Elmu is a good guess too

agitatedpotato , 10 months ago (edited 10 months ago)

I guessed 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.

RustedSwitch , 10 months ago

“Let me agitate my potato in peace, for crissake”

• you, probably

3laws , 10 months ago

potato

Whatch out for Mr Massive Tuber here! Mines is like a cashew, a small one.

Fosheze , 10 months ago

The infamous cheese wheel.

SatansMaggotyCumFart , 10 months ago

If you scrape of the headcheese you fuck up the mushroom harvest.

ladel , 10 months ago

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Khanzarate , 10 months ago

He’ll just ban the account instead, now. Maybe even say that it would be a block, but “that makes no sense”.

Anticorp , 10 months ago

#Everyone must listen to me!

veloxy , 10 months ago

He’s probably having a fit over everyone blocking him from their feeds

FoundTheVegan , 10 months ago

It makes NO SENSE to block me. I'm so smart!

HuddaBudda , 10 months 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.

mojo , 10 months ago

It’s chaotic good, because by destroying his platform, he is making the fedi grow. Surely there has to be a point where people will leave, right?

TheFerrango , 10 months ago

Did people stop using centralised services after all the data breaches and privacy scandals?

mojo , 10 months ago

Not when there are no decentralized services to turn to.

Heresy_generator , 10 months ago

It's also a feature explicitly required by both the Apple and Google app stores for apps that have user generated content.

https://developer.apple.com/app-store/review/guidelines/

1.2 User-Generated Content
Apps with user-generated content present particular challenges, ranging from intellectual property infringement to anonymous bullying. To prevent abuse, apps with user-generated content or social networking services must include:
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• The ability to block abusive users from the service

https://support.google.com/googleplay/android-developer/answer/9876937?hl=en

User Generated Content
User-generated content (UGC) is content that users contribute to an app, and which is visible to or accessible by at least a subset of the app's users.
Apps that contain or feature UGC, including apps which are specialized browsers or clients to direct users to a UGC platform, must implement robust, effective, and ongoing UGC moderation that:
...

• Provides an in-app system for blocking UGC and users;

Every day he further proves that he has no idea what he's doing. He's 100% going to reverse this decision when he find out all of the things he should have know before saying anything.

ninjakitty7 , 10 months ago

Is this real? That’s hilarious.

gravitas_deficiency , 10 months ago

Lmao he’s gonna get himself booted from BOTH app stores 😂

maxenmajs , 10 months ago

I can see him choosing to leave the app stores like epic did just to dodge the 30% cut. And of course he will put on a bunch of theatre about “free speech” if they do unlist Twitter.

SatansMaggotyCumFart , 10 months ago

But he charges $8 a month for free speech.

thisisawayoflife , 10 months ago

Cool

LEDZeppelin , 10 months ago

I would have given two fucks about this if I was still on Xitter.

Luci , 10 months ago

As I only used Twitter to troll right wingers, this change might bring me back.

avidamoeba , 10 months ago

Perfect opportunity for the Hexbear brigade.

TheSaneWriter , 10 months ago

It makes no sense.

I truly can’t imagine how this is true. It’s such a simple thing to understand.

Sanctus , 10 months ago

Yeah, being able to deny communications to people makes no sense. What is harassment?

AnonTwo , 10 months ago

Block makes sense. He knows it makes no sense to remove it. Block has existed on the internet long enough to assume this is completely malicious intent.

Like I flatout refuse to assume he removed a feature used literally everywhere else without ulterior motive. This is just to allow for bad actors to continue to voice themselves without any prevention tools.

Nougat , 10 months 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 , 10 months ago

You can mute people you don’t want to see posts from instead.

pumpsnabben , 10 months 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.

CrypticFawn , 10 months ago

Blocking stops the assholes from interacting with your own tweets entirely. Sure, they can make an alt to get around that, but that’s more work for them. Blocking is simple and quick.

Mute was never good enough because it still allowed assholes to interact with your tweets.

Source: Queer lady that had to block people in order to Twitter to not be trash before Elon bought it.

pumpsnabben , 10 months ago

Interact how? You will never see anything they do.

CrypticFawn , 10 months ago

Doesn’t matter if you can’t see it; what matters if if THEY can interact with a tweet. That’s why the block and mute features are different and why block is superior.

Abusers on Twitter love getting around being muted by interacting with their victims tweets, and finding ways to make their victim see what they’re doing. It’s why the block feature was implemented in the first place.

Can the abuser find ways around being blocked? Sure, but it requires more work on their part, and most don’t bother going that far. But for their victims, blocking is quick and easy.

And from reading some of the responses in this thread, it’s obvious to me that some of you never had to deal with being harassed on Twitter; the block feature is absolutely vital. Without it, Twitter is 100% done for. (Though one could argue it’s ruined already, cause Musk, but whatever).

pumpsnabben , 10 months ago

Everyone says muted accounts can “interact” with ones tweets but no one can inform me in what way.

How can muted accounts make so that you see what their doing?

CrypticFawn , 10 months ago

How can muted accounts make so that you see what their doing?

By encouraging fellow trolls/assholes to quote, reply and retweet your tweets so you’re forced to see them. Also, someone that is muted can still personally reply, quote and retweet your tweets as well; you just won’t see it, not unless they find a way around it (as I already described how). Toxic assholes always find away around mute features because it’s garbage and isn’t useful at all.

If you still can’t figure out why removing the block feature will be devastating for a significant portion of Twitters user-base, than you’re either acting in bad faith, obtuse, or one of the very toxic assholes that will be thrilled to see blocking removed.

Edit: Oh and one final thing; Lemmy has a block feature. Anymore ridiculous responses from you will result in just that. I can’t take anything you say on this topic seriously anymore.

timespace , 10 months ago

Doesn’t mute allow them to see your posts still?

pumpsnabben , 10 months ago

Why does that matter at all?

timespace , 10 months ago

Because maybe you don’t want someone to see your posts on their feed?

Thorny_Thicket , 10 months ago

Then don’t put it up on the internet

CrypticFawn , 10 months ago

Because maybe victims don’t want their harassers seeing or interacting with their tweets at all???

pumpsnabben , 10 months ago

Why does it matter if a harasser sees your tweets? How can they interact with the tweets when muted?

CrypticFawn , 10 months ago

How can they interact with the tweets when muted?

By replying, quoting and retweeting. However, if they’re blocked, they can’t do that without putting extra effort (such as making an alt account).

Why does it matter if a harasser sees your tweets?

Are you being serious or are you really just that obtuse? It’s so damn painfully obvious you’ve never been seriously harassed on social media.