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Shadywack ,
@Shadywack@lemmy.world avatar

The wording is funny, “public safety”. I’m pretty sure all social media is bad for public safety.

Treczoks ,

Good. This will drive even more people off his platform.

eran_morad ,

can we just ignore this diseased cunt and stop posting twatter horseshit?

SmashingSquid ,

I’d say compromise and post about the crap when he actually does something rather than just saying he’s going to. Him saying he’s going to remove blocking is an eye roll but him actually doing so and causing more damage to twitter gives me popcorn cravings.

Kolanaki ,
@Kolanaki@yiffit.net avatar

Is there anything he has said he was going to do with Twitter that he hasn’t actually tried to do?

SmashingSquid ,

At the beginning he said changes would be decided by polls. I can’t think of any others because he says something stupid so often it’s hard to keep track of.

HikuNoir ,

Watch Quo Vardis (1951) the other day. Elon is in it. Played by Peter Ustinov.

Borkingheck ,

Just a wee selection of my block list: bots, thirst traps, bitcoin bro, invest bros, marketing bros, dating stuff and far too much gambling.

I mean twitter must be down on ad revenue by the amount of gambling sites I block alone. Surely I was just about to sign up and gamble on the big South match between the irresistible Portsmouth v the unmovable object that is Southhampton.

monsoonstorm ,

He’ll probably invest his remaining billions in developing a way to thwart adblockers next. It will be as successful as everything else he has done in relation to twitter.

Qwaffle_waffle ,

Is there a shared list for blocking? I wouldn’t mind importing that.

Borkingheck ,

No idea if I can share it, it’s just what I’ve manually blocked over the years.

jesterraiin ,
@jesterraiin@lemmy.world avatar

Threat to Public Safety

Dude, you forgot which of two worlds is the real one. Hint: it’s not the Internet.

dueuwuje ,

Just get off it people. Easy to solve.

30mag ,

It seems to me that no one really gives a shit except the people cranking out articles about it.

Moonrise2473 ,

Before someone says “but you can mute those toxic asshole”. Muting them means they will continue to see your posts and will still berate you, other people will reply quoting you and you will not only continue to see the toxic content, but you will become a target to more and more assholes with nothing better to do in life

Excrubulent , (edited )
@Excrubulent@slrpnk.net avatar

Holy shit, “In His Latest Threat to Public Safety”, that’s in the actual headline. I want this to become a trend.

EDIT: I want the trend of calling out Elon on his bullshit in the headline. It is a threat to public safety because blocking people stops them seeing your tweets, and using mass tagging apps to do so reduces your profile to groups of unhinged right wingers. When you get their attention en masse they might hurt you because they create basically all of the domestic terrorists, and everyone is a member of the public. This isn’t difficult to figure out, guys. If you can’t understand it then you don’t want to.

But go off, tell us more about how much you hate the lying press.

sab ,

Overexaggerating headlines online? I thought that trend was as old as news sites itself.

Obi ,
@Obi@sopuli.xyz avatar

As old as the press, really.

GBU_28 ,

Right? It isn’t “public” safety, because you have to be like 4 layers deep to be in danger.

  1. A Twitter user
  2. Identifiable
  3. Post
  4. In a blocked conversation

“Public” refers to people just “walking around”, uninvolved I’m whatever is going on. So to relate to this it’d be like, “uninvolved Twitter readers being followed home”

PeckerBrown ,

Fuck that twat.

jackfrost ,

I can imagine the conversation.

Elon: “I own this website, and you’re telling me that I’m not allowed to see this person’s profile or activity because they blocked me?”

Good luck getting a massive narcissist like him to understand why every user should have that right.

cheese_greater ,

He’s acting exactly like your typical shitty narcissistic parasite of a parent who finds out they don’t control EVERY one of your social media accounts, whether you live with them or not lol. Or when they blocked someone “on your behalf” and you didn’t know about it and tried to search for them to no avail.

SlopppyEngineer ,

“Why is the engagement on my posts so low?”

“Well your Excellency, the great and powerful Musk, the users have blocked you.”

“They can’t do that. How else will they bask in my magnificence?”

“We tried ignoring the block and showing your posts anyway, but we had to reverse that decision unfortunately.”

“I have it! Remove blocking completely for everyone!”

“You are most wise. It shall be done, your Excellency.”

CapgrasDelusion ,

What's the over under on how many days until he backtracks this wonderful idea? I'll put it at 5. I choose over but only because I think that's how long the coke and benzo binge will take to wear off.

thecam ,
@thecam@lemmy.world avatar

I like this since it forces people who do not like having their world view shaken up to have their world view shaken up. This will either limit echo chambers on the platform or cause people to leave Twitter. Most likely cause people to leave Twitter which I am all for since it is a big tech spyware platform filled with toxic people.

Nostr is were it is at! Not mastodon.

BTW I do not have a Twitter account nor do I use Twitter.

commie ,

no.

door_in_the_face ,

People don’t just block others for “shaking up their world view”, lots of blocks happen because of harassment, rude behavior, etc. Taking away one of the few tools to stop harassment is insane.

fluxion ,

You obviously don’t use Twitter if you think well-argued/constructive challenges to worldviews are the sorts of things people need the blocking feature for.

thecam ,
@thecam@lemmy.world avatar

For some twitter users use the blocking feature to live in a echo chamber. For some it is to block spam. For some it is to block rude people.

The con of no blocking feature is not able to block spam.

datavoid ,

Truly a mystery why he would do this… /s

https://lemmy.ml/pictrs/image/596a972a-33cd-4c6d-a434-22db86e15819.png

stopthatgirl7 ,
@stopthatgirl7@kbin.social avatar

If Musk really does this, instead of backtracking off it, he’ll really kill the site. He had never realized that the way he uses Twitter is NOT the way that everyone does. He can’t see past his own nose, and no one there will tell him no.

I reckon he’ll either latch onto the Apple and Google TOS as an excuse to backtrack when it finally gets through his thick skull that this is a terrible idea, or he’ll double down on it because no one tells him what to do.

iAmTheTot ,
@iAmTheTot@kbin.social avatar

If Musk really does this, instead of backtracking off it, he’ll really kill the site.

Man I think I read this somewhere else. Oh right it was the last ten times he did batshit things, and yet...

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