I really hope they don't go back on this because it's really going to damage their bottom line and I have popcorn to eat
this post was submitted on 18 Aug 2023
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I'm kind of tired of hearing about what this dummy is up to. He's very rich. But clearly very dumb. He took emerald mine money and lucked his way into some good investments. Bought his way into Tesla and pretends to be very smart.
Thats not to say every idea he has had is bad. But he is clearly not a smart man overall.
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Shit won't fly because of some App Store/Play Store policies lol
ITT: "Blocking isn't a necessary feature, specifically because I do not get harassed." Also: "Because you COULD just make an alt, take the time to make a fake email, and even potentially be required to have a fake ID in the future, muting and blocking are LITERALLY the same thing"
Any disincentive is one more step some spineless bastard has to go through to harass you, even if there are work arounds.
I'll bet a buffalo nickel that this is so Musk can guarantee eyeballs on ads.
Arg: expected eyeballs on ads not 100% because blocking. This shiny new 'X' will guarantee 100%.
Tinfoil: If he can disrupt B2B on ads and seize more marketing market share, he looks like a genius and gets to add a payment feature to X. I don't think he's very creative and will just remake PayPal with a fuckton of extra steps.
I thought he was relying to his own Tweet
What could possibly go wrong.
So he’s pulling an Elon again.
Can we defederate from Twitter/X already?
I'm going to be excited to see how this plays out with legal controls.
That being said removing block isn't necessarily a terrible idea if you plan to expand what your privacy controls are.
You should be able to restrict who can see your content. If they take away that aspect, that would be hilarious and ridiculous.
We'll see how it all plays out
Not having your tweets displayed publicly is not blocking. It's just about which public tweets you are shown.