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[-] aramis87@fedia.io 111 points 3 days ago

“One of the biggest functions of blocking is giving women the ability to stop weird men from constantly making them uncomfortable and scared,” one user wrote. “So of course Elon had to change that.”

Given how he constantly tries to insert himself and his opinions into everything he sees, it's clear he has no idea about how consent works, nor why people don't want him in their lives.

[-] mbirth@lemmy.ml 10 points 3 days ago

Rather people have no idea how blocking on 𝕏 worked/works. You were ALWAYS able to see tweets from people that blocked you by simply logging out or using an alt account.

I don’t understand all this fuss about this simple change. He only removes a useless feature that was never more than a minor inconvenience for those that got blocked.

If you don’t want people to see your tweets, lock your profile. This worked before and this still works just fine.

[-] pre@fedia.io 6 points 2 days ago

@mbirth@lemmy.ml And yet that minor inconvenience is enough of a hurdle that Musk thinks he has to get rid of it. Following a profile logged-out is impossible now, and alt-accounts are a pain to maintain. I'd wager that in way over half of the cases where someone is blocked, they do in fact then never see the blocker's posts because they don't run alts or view logged out.

[-] mbirth@lemmy.ml 1 points 2 days ago

Following a profile logged-out is impossible now

What do you mean? I can just open an Incognito tab and go to x.com/ and see all posts (without replies, though).

because they don't run alts

I think you underestimate the dedication of some of those trolls. Also, most apps allow to easily switch between profiles with like 2 taps.

[-] pre@fedia.io 2 points 1 day ago

@mbirth@lemmy.ml "Some of them", sure.

Which is not 90% of them. It's the exceptions.

If a block-button stopping read-ability works in 80% of the cases, it's better than one that works in zero percent of the cases.

Look at twitter.com/@elonmusk in a private tab.

Most of the posts you see are from 2022!?

The block button on Twitter has gone from 80% effective to 0% effective.

Well done Musk. Well done.

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