Twitter/X removing the block feature : technology

[–] JoYo@lemmy.ml 1 points 2 years ago

well ya. musk paid a lot of money to those blue checks posting CSAM. what's the point if you can just block the pedos?

[–] PlantPowerPhysicist@discuss.tchncs.de 1 points 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago)

When does this take place? I just looked at my hosts file and the lines

::1 twitter.com

::1 www.twitter.com

are still there??

[–] solidsnake2085@lemmy.world 1 points 2 years ago

YMS wins against Daddy Derek now!

[–] Jerrimu2@startrek.website 1 points 2 years ago

Twitter is gab 4, parler is 2, and truth is 3

[–] Jaysyn@kbin.social 1 points 2 years ago

If you're still using Twitter, not only are you part of the problem, you like the abuse.

[–] Jeredin@lemm.ee 0 points 2 years ago

I think if Hex isn't willing to deal with their "minority" of trolls/hateful users, then I think banning their server is justified. I don't want to punish the majority(?) but I don't know why we should have to deal with their toxic users when our servers wouldn't allow those kinds of users.

[–] gravitas_deficiency@sh.itjust.works -1 points 2 years ago (1 children)

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 0 points 2 years ago (1 children)

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.

[–] gravitas_deficiency@sh.itjust.works -1 points 2 years ago

I’m betting I can reverse engineer how to create spam accounts in a mostly automated fashion faster than he can ban accounts. And I bet a lot of other people can do the same.

I feel very confident saying that he’s not gonna win this one.

[–] thisisawayoflife@lemmy.world -4 points 2 years ago

Cool

[–] Borkingheck@lemmy.world -4 points 2 years ago (1 children)

He's got a point. It's kinda weird how I can just block every advert I see. But also super weird to not be able to block dingleberries either.

[–] RadButNotAChad@lemmy.world 1 points 2 years ago (1 children)

A block is probably worth something to them though. It shows you viewed it and interacted, even if it was to block it.

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[+] toki@lemmy.world -7 points 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago) (3 children)

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[+] Kinglink@lemmy.world -7 points 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago) (2 children)

While removing it is stupid, I also think it's a limited feature. I am blocked by Jason Schreier like many people in gaming culture are. (I didn't even comment on his post, but he did a mass block based on who responded to another person's post because that's the type of person he is) He's a relatively famous gaming journalist so when someone links his messages I can't see them, right?

Well I can, I just open an incognito window, and I still get to see what ever he's posting, because when you aren't logged in you get to see everything.

So in that way Block doesn't really make a lot of sense. Limiting who can interact with you might needed, but limiting who can see what you post doesn't really.

There is still "Mute" which I use much more often to get rid of "Console war" crap, from my feed, but honestly I also just don't use "X" Because in general I haven't found it that useful, and feels like it's always been a massive time waster. If Elon is making other people realize that now, I'd say he's doing a great job in waking up people to the fact that it's always been a pretty shitty social media.

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