• alienanimals@lemmy.world
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    1 year ago

    Literally every single day we have idiots doing Musk’s PR work for free.

    Downvote Musk spam. The billionaire doesn’t need your help making sure his businesses stay in the 24 hour news cycle.

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      1 year ago

      It becomes less stupid the moment you realize Elon is angry some people are allowed not to have his bullshit forced down their throats. Then everything starts to make sense.

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    1 year ago
    • “I don’t want to see content from this person”, legit
    • “I don’t want to get notifications about this person’s content”, legit
    • “I don’t want this person’s content to be able to link to my profile or use my name”, dubious
    • “I want this person to have to log out to see my content”, nonsense
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      How so? Even if I think people are posting the stupidest, most self-incriminating bullshit ever, I don’t have any special right to see their content or forward to my audience if they don’t want me to.

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        It still makes no sense that I can just log out take a screenshot log back in and share it. That’s the part that’s just a bit weird. It makes sense on s platform where not everything is publicly accessible

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    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

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      1 year ago

      Not having your tweets displayed publicly is not blocking. It’s just about which public tweets you are shown.

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    1 year ago

    I wonder when he says “it makes no sense” if he is just confused by the complexity of it. Because blocking is more complicated than it might seem at first. It introduces issues where different people see different versions of things, and in some ways blocking can be a little like choosing to put your head in the sand regarding someone, but they can still be around, flinging shit at you.

    • GiM@feddit.de
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      1 year ago

      He probably realized that millions of people blocked him and it hurt his ego.

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    1 year ago

    So… Wait.

    This means someone can just @ someone else and destroy their feed with hate or dick pics or whatever?!

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    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.

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      1 year ago

      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.

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        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.