Musk + friends: I can and I’m a genius but also completely unrelated to all the criticism here is a new feature almost identical to the block feature but called something else.
Serious, everyone whose life will be affected by this already has an incognito tab open they use for stalking the posts of people who have blocked them. Literally nothing changes.
They really are. I listened to one of their spaces with the j6 shaman on idjit. It was completely tedious they just allowed him to sell his bs with no pushback.
"The new 'SWAT' feature will allow you to respond to a bullies and trolls by sending heavily militarized police units to their homes in response to an active shooter report."
Y'know, as someone who works with kids, I don't think I really need to explain why it's a good idea for me to block the kids I know if/ when I come across their social media profiles. I don't want to see them and they should not see me.
People always think of blocking as a thing done out of anger. But it's also just a way to maintain boundaries that are necessary to protect yourself *and* others. If I see a kid I know I block immediately. I should not have access to that part of their life. I do this out of respect for them.
I had to use Twitter block ON Krassenstein because ever since the Musk takeover, he kept filling my feed with idiocy like this, having never seen or followed him prior.
I think this is like Louis DeJoy destroying the USPS from within, and Scott Pruitt, climate change denier, in charge of the EPA. Certain types of guys see a good thing that contributes to the social good, hate it, and do everything they can to shit on it.
Honestly, it has cost the world more. A tool that mobilized the Arab Spring, a lifeline to community for so many people during lockdowns, it was eponymous. That utter nincompoop has ruined it for the world. What a waste.
Who the hell wants to follow/stalk someone who has blocked them? This is just a worse block that as far as I can tell has absolutely no purpose outside of enraging the blocked person and giving them access to a person who wants nothing to do with them.
I block people not just because I don’t want them to see what I post, but because I don’t want to see what they post. I don’t want anything to do with them. This shouldn’t be hard to understand.
Apparently removing the block feature violates the App Store terms of service, which could result in the app getting delisted if they go through with it 😂
Not just that. Even though the person who has them muted wouldn't see their vitriol, other people still could. The muted person could still attack others in the replies and the OP wouldn't even know it. When you block someone, you're not just shielding yourself, you're shielding your followers.
I'm convinced she's just a scapegoat for Elon. Every decision that's come out lately has had his stench all over it. I'd be surprised if she wrote those tweets herself, tbh
Yeah probably about the time they started the whole Partner Programm. I suddenly got lots of shitty “sponsored” Tweets in my timeline - and blocking those guys was very helpful.
So they’re doing the equivalent of renaming block to mute but removing some of its key features therein. And they’ll make in a year what many Americans won’t make in a lifetime. Neat!
Everyone should have the choice to block or mute. It's the power of a well-thought-out tool: versatility.
(The truth is they believe they can choose for people, bc they feel above. When in fact they are paid doing nothing, so they have to find stuff. These people are parasites.)
They **really** need to get the perspective of their female userbase. But it seems like this is a solution in search of a problem, or -- as I call it -- an "Elon."
Getting rid of the mute & block button is not advisable at all. I don't understand why this is presumed to be okay? I'm someone that has been bullied all of my life and I'm recently encountering cyber bullying online. I've had to block certain people recently because of it.
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Everyone: you both cannot and should not do that
Musk + friends: I can and I’m a genius but also completely unrelated to all the criticism here is a new feature almost identical to the block feature but called something else.
Lucky for us this app won’t give them enough attention so we should be free from their presence for a while.
it stinks. Elon's ego is
costing him $Billions.
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Okay so they may not actually mean well.
that's just blocking though?? LMAO
did elon really just wake up yesterday and get mad at blocking as a concept?
He seemed to present as a moderate leftist, but just rubbed like 'not leftist, just making money of it'
(The truth is they believe they can choose for people, bc they feel above. When in fact they are paid doing nothing, so they have to find stuff. These people are parasites.)
No.
Enhanced mute!