I can’t wait for other social media platforms to do the same thing. Social media companies are so stagnant they just copy what other companies do without thinking if it’s a good idea or not.
Reminds me of Apple
So what you’re saying is, if I have a Twitter account and I start blocking many MANY people it costs Elon money? Interesting.
Alternatively, Elon just found out how many people are blocking him.
I think this is what really happened. Hurt his ego.
I’m extremely doubtful that there is any truth to that.
True, and even if there were it would be a massive pain and probably the best thing to do is not engage with twitter at all.
…what the fuck???
WTF is “a stronger form of mute?”
E-gun
This is cause people blocked him isnt it or was it simply Biden got more attention then the poor musky boi
That was my first thought. “Oh, someone bwocked the widdle baby!”
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.
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!).
Concerning
Haha, that’s a throwback to the days when I helped to manage a phpBB board and there were a few members that would just continuously get into arguments so I edited the database so both of them had each other on their block list. It was very telling when I discovered they unblocked each other a few weeks later and got back to arguing and derailing thread topics.
It’s interesting to me that they made the argument that blocking is increasing server costs.
- How is that even possible, on a technical level?
- 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.
logical
Stop right there. This is Elon Musk we are talking about
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.
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.
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!
Also, Lemmy has the bonus of federation allowing instances to defederate entirely from abuse and spam-happy instances. The smaller instances can have more tight-knit communities and defederating from instances full of jerks might be as worthwhile as a “block.”
I hope it stays this way. It would suck being excluded from unrelated content on Lemmy just because I had a disagreement with someone at some point in the past (depending on how block happy people are of course).
Elon Musk really fucking hates his trans daughter. Dad of the century, right here.
Seriously good on his daughter for dropping his scumbag ass. She deserves far better from a parent.
I wasn’t aware he had more children than the one with the weird-ass name. The private life section on wikipedia is a ride…
He ascribes to Longtermism and like his associate Jeffery Epstein, he thinks his genes are magically special, and so he wants as many offspring as humanly possible: while not actually giving one shit about the quality of life for any of them.
It’s really interesting, because he fucking hates his own father (Errol is also a creep who fathered a child with his step-daughter, who he raised from childhood), but can’t put together that he is exactly the fuck the same as his creep ass father.
Longtermism doesn’t have to do with one’s own personal genetics or lineage, though, and it certainly doesn’t belong to Elon.
Longtermism is a notion coming out of population ethics, that since there will be more people in the future than there are today, that we should take the well-being of all those future people into account when making decisions today.
This can be taken in lots of different directions — ranging from humanist environmentalism, to space migration, to concern about exotic existential risks.
But a fixation on one’s own personal DNA is not really related to it at all. That’s more of a misunderstanding of evolutionary biology.
Isn’t this because he doesn’t want to pay Google’s bill that they already signed a deal with? I hope Twitter implodes and Elon loses millions
I think that is just a happy coincidence for Musk. The park of Twitter hosted on Google is the part dealing with harassment and safety. Removing that means more money to piss away but also amplification of hate speech and trolling. I bet the EU will try to smack Twitter with another fine bigger than the bill for Google because of this.
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
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.
I deleted mine the day Elon bought it… Lol. I honestly never cared for Twitter too much but I admit I get a lot of news from it (specifically because I am following the ukrainian situation pretty closely).
How do you use Mastodon, if I may ask? I briefly registered and tried using it but it came off as highly populated with conservatives so I promptly left. :/
The mastodon instance hosted by the same people as this lemmy instance is nice.
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.
I know some people I follow go though their replies hiding all blue ticks which is hilarious. I’ve started muting anyone with a blue ticks who is also insufferably right leaning or an Elon bro. If enough people are doing it it’s definitely having an effect.
I block most people with blue checkmarks. Why does Musk want to make twitter even worse than it already is?
Here’s the context, bigots complaining about being blocked
a stronger form of mute
Yeah, Muskrat. You know what that’s called? BLOCKING.
Idk I think I can be in favor of this if it worked like this. I can block you and I won’t see anything you post and you can’t DM me, but you can see and reply to my posts (replys that I don’t see) so that you aren’t excluded from the general discussion that my post brings up.
The problem now becomes that people will harass you and your followers on your posts way more easily now because they can just see all you do while you don’t. It enables people doing the harassment.
But followers that don’t want to see it could also block those people no?
If the point is to stop harrasment against the OP then it doesn’t matter if other people see those that the OP blocked. Hiding those blocked by the OP from everyone just allows the OP to create an echochamber centered around themself.
blocking public posts makes no sense
Don’t entirely disagree, the content is still easily visible. But it’s not about blocking content from being seen, Musky baby, it’s about blocking accounts from hurling abuse at the poster.
needs … a stronger form of mute
For just public posts? Block feels like a fairly comprehensively strong form of mute…?
First thing I did after he bought Twitter is block him. Did I hurt his feelings?
(Not that I follow what’s going on with Twitter anymore since I found Mastodon.)
You can’t block Elon Musk on Twitter. Tried it. If you reload the page, he is magically unblocked.
I’d wager this is in response to the campaign going around to block every blue checkmark. Elon can’t let his crowd of sycophants feel like they’re being ignored.
This has to be his worst decision at twitter so far.
emphasis on “so far”
Added that there very intentionally :D
I wonder what he’ll come up with to top this one. Blocking is such a fundamental function that I couldn’t have thought of removing it if I purposefully tried to destroy the site.
While absolutely not important in the grand scheme of things, that day I opened the Twitter app and saw that fucking dogecoin icon as the splash screen, taking up all the screen real estate for a second or so, I was like: what am I even doing in this clownery of a platform??
the checkmarks thing is a lot worse
