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Elon Musk Says Twitter Is Going To Get Rid Of The Block Feature, Enabling Greater Harassment
(www.techdirt.com)
Wow. He really is a tool.
this post was submitted on 11 Jun 2023
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The source showed the tweet as an image, so I went into the sewer waters from Fritter. And, yep, it's genuinely there.
It's not even that I believe him unable to have such bad takes: it's not the first time. I have just seen a few fake ones. But the fake ones aren't even needed!
I assume he will still have the block button though.
Another great ideea from greatest Genius of our age! Of God how could we live without him until now! /s
It's insane how ludicrous his ideas in particular seem to be, especially with Twitter. This has to be trolling, surely? Or does he not want to allow people to block him?
He's already overridden people blocking him. You still see his posts.
He's just trying to make sure it stays useful as a weapon for fascists like himself is all.
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I only see this as going well for him/Twitter.
Not really, it’s definitely going to be interesting to watch it go up in flames 🍿
This is so dumb it must be out of context.
Elon and Trump are fairly unique in that context usually makes it worse.
This level of nob gobbling takes focus.
Bro it's like he WANTS us to only see t shirt ads
Huh why ? This doesn't make sense
After he got boosted up to a level where anyone was only getting Elon in their feeds despite of the topic, a lot of people blocked his ass. So he is now getting rid of the block feature because everybody should be reading Elon's all bangers, all the time.
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"Hang on, Steve. Reddit can not and will not beat Twitter." -Elon
"Hold my beer, Elon! I'm probably going to shutdown the mobile reddit website." -Steve
I really hope platforms like Lemmy and Mastodon take off. Just the idea of no single person with control over how we all communicate and share ideas gives me hope for the future.
sadly, Mastodon currently still is pretty centralised around a few very big instances. I hope the Fediverse gets more decentralised…
What does it take to facilitate this? Do individuals have the ability to help it along, or does it take more resources? I'm new to this but would like to learn.
You just have to (encourage others to) register on an instance with less than, say, 1000 active users. I think that's already taking care of most of the issue.
I think if one of them goes sour it'll be easier for people migrate to another mastodon instance, and for that instance to grow. When Twitter goes bad, there's not just a convenient alternative exactly-Twitter-but-run-by-different-people around the corner. But those small Mastodon instances could grow if they had an influx (to a point, and probably better so if the influx was gradual).
Edit: especially because federation means that the people who move to the new instance can still see and interact with everyone on the old instance, so they can't be held to the old instance merely by the presence of their friends on that instance. Unless the old instance blocks federation with wherever people start moving to, but still.