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[-] M_Reimer@lemmy.world 653 points 1 year 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@lemm.ee 317 points 1 year 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@feddit.de 95 points 1 year 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@lemm.ee 47 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year 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@lemmy.world comms, that's why that was created.

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[-] twistedtxb@lemmy.ca 63 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year 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

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[-] alienanimals@lemmy.world 221 points 1 year ago

Literally every single day we have idiots doing Musk's PR work for free.

Downvote Musk spam. The billionaire doesn't need your help making sure his businesses stay in the 24 hour news cycle.

[-] TwilightVulpine@lemmy.world 72 points 1 year ago

You think being inevitably forced to see every bit of harassment and spam is going to make that platform more popular and financially viable? Nah, if anything this is free advertising for Mastodon.

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[-] ThisIsAManWhoKnowsHowToGling@lemmy.dbzer0.com 189 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

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

[-] uwe@lemmy.world 217 points 1 year ago

I have him blocked. It's my fault. He noticed and now he is going to axe the whole feature

[-] DarkWasp@lemmy.world 55 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

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

[-] BrudderAaron@lemmy.world 43 points 1 year 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.

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[-] jsveiga@sh.itjust.works 52 points 1 year ago

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

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[-] Chenzo@lemmy.world 170 points 1 year ago

So... Wait.

This means someone can just @ someone else and destroy their feed with hate or dick pics or whatever?!

[-] PeleSpirit@lemmy.world 106 points 1 year ago

I'll bet doxxing is allowed now too, there's no way he has people to stop that.

[-] NevermindNoMind@lemmy.world 69 points 1 year ago

Mr. "assassination coordinates" said he was going to live stream driving to Zucks house to fight him, which would effectively doxx Zuck. Expecting logical consistency is silly.

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[-] DigitalTraveler42@lemmy.world 41 points 1 year ago

Sounds like people should start setting up nasty ass porn bots and have them spam Musk constantly

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[-] Laticauda@lemmy.ca 168 points 1 year ago

"it makes no sense" literally every social media site in existence has the block feature, and the reason is to help people prevent harassment. Elon is like a fucking toddler, it's obvious he just wants to get rid of blocking because he's pissy about being blocked by other people.

[-] Silverseren@kbin.social 125 points 1 year ago

The block "feature" is a required tool for being listed on the Google and Apple stores, among others.

Removing it will get Twitter delisted from them as well.

[-] Thee0023@sh.itjust.works 53 points 1 year ago

That'd be nice if it actually applied, but Apple has already made exceptions for X among other large companies to allow them to play by different rules in the store. So I'm not holding my breath for any sort of punishment.

Examples:

  • X got a one letter App Store name that was previously against the rules (other devs need their app name to be at least 2 characters) (more info)
  • YouTube had been blocking iOS PiP background playback (not sure if they still do) and put that feature behind the YouTube Premium subscription. Background playback and PiP is part of iOS's system capabilities and the rule specifically says it's not allowed. See Apple's guidelines section 3.2.2 (ii) here. With this, one could make the argument that PiP would only support system supported video decoding, and YouTube uses DASH for higher resolution videos, but YouTube does offer video and audio streams that are natively supported by Apple as well so I don't hold much support for this argument.
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[-] PBCrisps@lemmy.world 112 points 1 year ago

Just stop using Twitter. It's easy.

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[-] bauhaus@lemmy.ml 109 points 1 year ago
[-] jenniebuckley@lemmy.world 108 points 1 year ago

I mean it's literally in the terms and conditions of both the App Store and Play Store for social media to have a block button lol

[-] daniskarma@lemmy.world 43 points 1 year ago

Elon complaining about some conspirancy on why their app got taken down for not complying.

[-] stochasticity@lemmy.world 101 points 1 year ago

This is incredibly consistent with the "free speech" crowd thinking free speech entitles you to an audience.

[-] Bongles@lemm.ee 97 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

Unreal. It's not even incompetence, he really is just tanking the site on purpose.

[-] Zagorath@aussie.zone 39 points 1 year ago

No he's not.

He's a right wing grifter and always has been. And like many on the right, he views harassment as a form of "free speech" which should be acceptable.

He's not tanking the site on purpose. He's tanking it because his bullshit ideology naturally results in creating a hostile environment that people don't want to be a part of.

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[-] HuddaBudda@kbin.social 83 points 1 year 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.

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[-] Anti_Face_Weapon@lemmy.world 72 points 1 year ago

This is so dumb, what is he thinking? What's the angle?

Dumbness aside, Twitter is only usable if you block all of the blue check spammers who add nothing to any discussion.

Maybe he's doing it so you can't block blue checks? But it still doesn't make a whole lot of sense.

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Lmao this is going to be incredible to watch unfold. I am assuming Elon himself has blocked an absolute fuckton of accounts that are just out to troll him, so either he’s gonna (rightly) get absolutely inundated by trolls, or he’s gonna make the devs disable it for everyone except him and whoever else he wants to give that feature to.

[-] notatoad@lemmy.world 47 points 1 year ago

yeah, elon's not going to see the negative consequences of this personally, because he'll just use the "ban" button instead of the "block" button.

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[-] shashi154263@lemmy.world 63 points 1 year ago

Yup. X makes no sense. Please delete it.

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[-] joshuaacasey@lemmy.world 62 points 1 year ago

This may finally be the thing that kills twitter. I mean. Twitter is the only platform to do something batshit insane like removing a safety feature like blocking. Twitter is about to become downright dangerous for marginalized populations (LGBTQ+, autistic, sex workers...)

[-] LadyAutumn@lemmy.blahaj.zone 44 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

That is exactly what he wants Twitter to be.

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[-] st33lb0ne@lemmy.world 54 points 1 year ago

I cant wait for Twitter/X to cease to exist.

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[-] Syrc@lemmy.world 53 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

“Mr. Billionaire Tech Company CEO, what was your detailed reasoning for the removal of a highly important feature that benefits way more users than the ones it harms?”

“It makes no sense”

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[-] PenguBlue@lemmy.ca 48 points 1 year ago

Hasn't Elon blocked people before tho? And even been public when blocking some people?

[-] driving_crooner@lemmy.eco.br 34 points 1 year ago

Don't worry, he's going to be able to keep it doing in the meantime it becomes a premium feature.

[-] kratoz29@lemm.ee 47 points 1 year ago

Huh, I have never been a fan of blocking people, but this is a very dumb move, normal Twitter news of course.

[-] Squizzy@lemmy.world 40 points 1 year ago

Blocking people is essential, I've blocked tons of people and communities on here already

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[-] oryx@lemmy.world 46 points 1 year ago

Just when you think he's run out of stupid decisions to make, he does it again.

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[-] Smacks@lemmy.world 43 points 1 year ago

He'll make it a premium feature

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[-] ArchmageAzor@lemmy.world 42 points 1 year ago

He is actually, seriously saying "I don't get it, so it must be bad/unnecessary"

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[-] donuts@kbin.social 42 points 1 year ago

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

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[-] balderdash9@lemmy.zip 40 points 1 year ago

Is this man actually retarded or is he trolling us? Seems like he's intentionally shitting on Twitter

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[-] TacoButtPlug@sh.itjust.works 34 points 1 year ago

He is really attempting to run it into the ground isn't he?

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