Is this Musk messing around with the block function? - ThreadSky

chadbourn.bsky.social • 133 days ago

Is this Musk messing around with the block function?

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thirdwhaletrip.bsky.social•133 days ago

Seems something has happened over there, Mark ! Looks like thousands of pennies have dropped all at once 🤔😂😂

tjrh.uk•133 days ago

Is it just an acknowledgement of the fact that you have only to have a second account to read a public poster who's blocked your primary account?
I could to do that to read Nadine Dorries' pearls of wisdom.

ziyyigo-tipyigo.bsky.social•133 days ago

If it wasn't a significant hurdle to most they wouldn't have removed it.

crucialwax.com•133 days ago

Musk was tired of forgetting which account he was using.

lunabelle.bsky.social•133 days ago

Thats what the Independent are reporting, also that BS fell over for a few minutes because of traffic.

andrewr.bsky.social•133 days ago

I deleted my dormant account when I found out.

drjamesjteeth.bsky.social•133 days ago

X now. Block a troll. They can’t interact with a post, but can still see it. So they’ll screen shot it and post it that way, then their followers can pile on.

Since so many people there follow the “can’t block someone because then I look weak” philosophy it might not be a flood coming over.

calenhad-social.bsky.social•133 days ago

I was already having to block so many wankers that it was basically unusable as it was. My view was, see if you're a wanker, you lose the privilege of my content. If that no longer applies it makes a mockery of the whole thing. Musk is a total tosspot.

drjamesjteeth.bsky.social•133 days ago

I always blocked on Twitter. The block culture on Bluesky is my culture.

ajpelser.bsky.social•133 days ago

Well-said.

andykiko.bsky.social•133 days ago

"what can I do to further drive down the number of active users?"

dawnbritten.bsky.social•133 days ago

Yes Mark x

janjonesauthor.bsky.social•133 days ago

Seems very likely!

ro8ert.bsky.social•133 days ago

Hence https://www.independent.co.uk/tech/bluesky-x-twitter-elon-musk-block-b2630894.html

ppu512.bsky.social•133 days ago

Masterful gambit, sir!

ethelcrimble.bsky.social•133 days ago

I think so!

andyhillwriter.bsky.social•132 days ago

I left Twitter/X a while ago, but have had a shoal of people follow me here in the last 24hrs.

louisefoster.bsky.social•132 days ago

No doubt.

t166er.bsky.social•133 days ago

More than likely, he's manipulating Twitter for his own means, he can afford to abandon it when his objectives are met....the algorithms are filtering out negative anti Trump accounts..

tainkirrahe.bsky.social•133 days ago

And a change to the TOS specifying that any creative works uploaded to the site will be used for machine learning with seemingly no opt out :|

malrog.bsky.social•133 days ago

Yes he has gone a bit Stanford Experiment.

darklock.com•133 days ago

I think it's gone more Milgram Experiment at this point.

vanderstap.co.uk•133 days ago

BlueSky:
Total Registrations 11,542,102
Invalid Accounts 209,008
Deleted Accounts 293,364
Suspended Accounts 44,319
Deactivated Accounts 101,459
Existing Accounts 10,893,952

purpletea280.bsky.social•133 days ago

It’s impossible on there now.

thedent.net•133 days ago

mandeville24.bsky.social•133 days ago

Maybe that’s why my app wouldn’t load this afternoon!

sianjasper.bsky.social•133 days ago

Yup & the numbers are likely to be higher once the America’s wake up later today.

unstablemabel.bsky.social•133 days ago

Absolutely, I see his supporters say it's for free speech. Since when is enforced speech free speech? Ask North Koreans who have propaganda forcibly piped into their homes every day.

brianinfrance.bsky.social•133 days ago

Supporters = cult members 😏

dorotheacalm.bsky.social•133 days ago

I think so

marie-fleur.bsky.social•133 days ago

Clearly, yes !

hgwood.bsky.social•133 days ago

He’s the biggest agent of growth at Bluesky.

t-rexit.bsky.social•133 days ago

🔽🔽🔽

https://www.independent.co.uk/tech/bluesky-x-twitter-elon-musk-block-b2630894.html

dawnbritten.bsky.social•133 days ago

Yes I was chucked off earlier.

vesnavoice.bsky.social•133 days ago

Yes, it did for a while…😳

gillmh.bsky.social•133 days ago

Ah that's what it was.

melhistorygeek.bsky.social•133 days ago

looks like it

gillmh.bsky.social•133 days ago

Yes. He's just hammered the final nail into the Twitter coffin.

keithwilson.eu•133 days ago

Yep. Bizarre that ‘blocking’ on X will now prevent you from seeing the other person’s posts without preventing them from seeing yours. No doubt that will eventually be removed as well, making protected accounts the only way to restrict unwanted access.

changeitlater.bsky.social•133 days ago

Yep. About 500 new users a minute overnight!

cassiopia.bsky.social•133 days ago

Yup

tomlloydwrites.bsky.social•133 days ago

and the new terms

jilllewis33.bsky.social•133 days ago

Which are? Have seen about the change to blocking but not about terms.

tomlloydwrites.bsky.social•133 days ago

using your posts to train AI

jilllewis33.bsky.social•133 days ago

Thanks. Ah that... I haven't posted for over a year but believe I turned the permission off when it was 1st discussed a few months ago. Has the turn off been disabled?

tomlloydwrites.bsky.social•133 days ago

I believe so. People are posting parts of the new T&Cs and I don't think it's optional now, which is to be expected given it's all Musky

jilllewis33.bsky.social•133 days ago

Just checked & the option to not tick the box for 'AI training' is still there & my settings are unchanged. Maybe that's gonna change soon?

jilllewis33.bsky.social•133 days ago

I've been resisting deleting my a/c having read about bots etc taking over handles but it maybe time. I'll try & check what's going on. Thanks for the warning!

dmsfick.bsky.social•133 days ago

If one doesn't accept the terms, I wonder if it still applies. I haven't accepted them yet.

quantumjared.bsky.social•133 days ago

I deleted my account this morning.

europesheila.bsky.social•133 days ago

Yes, if you keep using it

dmsfick.bsky.social•133 days ago

I imagine they'll still do the AI thing whether one agrees or not.

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