Well it’s “allegedly” decentralized, which should solve this by design…
Anyone who still uses Twitter either condones what Musk has done and is doing, or is completely oblivious.
I long for the day it dies the death it deserves and Musk is left holding the bag having to pay all the debt. If only he’d be forced to do that, but like all rich assholes, he’ll get out of it somehow.
changing how its “block” button works. That option previously allowed users to hide their profile from certain accounts – but will no longer do so.
So I guess all that stuff they did to lock down the ability to see things on Xitter without an account was strictly for evil then
“One of the biggest functions of blocking is giving women the ability to stop weird men from constantly making them uncomfortable and scared,” one user wrote. “So of course Elon had to change that.”
Given how he constantly tries to insert himself and his opinions into everything he sees, it’s clear he has no idea about how consent works, nor why people don’t want him in their lives.
I honestly don’t think it’s a matter of him not understanding how consent works and more of a matter that he sees consent as something that gets in his way.
Rather people have no idea how blocking on 𝕏 worked/works. You were ALWAYS able to see tweets from people that blocked you by simply logging out or using an alt account.
I don’t understand all this fuss about this simple change. He only removes a useless feature that was never more than a minor inconvenience for those that got blocked.
If you don’t want people to see your tweets, lock your profile. This worked before and this still works just fine.
You were ALWAYS able to see tweets from people that blocked you by simply logging out or using an alt account.
Well, yeah. It’s a different account. That’s how accounts work. Do you think one account blocking someone should result in every account blocking them too?
Having a public (i.e. not locked) Twit𝕏 account and believing you can block single people is a bit stupid to begin with.
When screaming on a market square, you can’t demand for single people to “please not listen” to what you’re screaming.
simply logging out or using an alt account
It is increasingly difficult to use X without an account. Not sure what the signup process is like nowadays. IIRC it used to require phone number verification in the Twitter days, but perhaps Musk relaxed the requirements in order to better pad the usage stats with spambots?
“One of the biggest functions of blocking is giving women the ability to stop weird men from constantly making them uncomfortable and scared,” one user wrote. “So of course Elon had to change that.”
They buried the lede a bit there, but that’s pretty much it.
