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X adds video calling — and lets strangers ring you: Turned on by default, tool lets anyone you follow potentially call you up (www.independent.co.uk)
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X adds video calling — and lets strangers ring you: Turned on by default, tool lets anyone you follow potentially call you up::Turned on by default, tool lets anyone you follow potentially call you up

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[–] [email protected] 20 points 1 year ago (1 children)

The system means that all accounts are liable to receive calls from accounts you follow, or those run by people whose number you have in your address book. To be able to call someone, they must have sent at least one direct message to your account.

You're not going to get phone calls from just any rando.

[–] [email protected] 21 points 1 year ago (1 children)

You’re right. Cause I deleted that app months ago.

“They must have sent one DM” - so any rando that has sent an unwelcome DM can follow it with a call?

[–] [email protected] 21 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (2 children)

To be able to call someone, they must have sent at least one direct message to your account.

Emphasis mine.

To me, it seems like it means that for me to be able to call you, you need to send me at least one DM AND be following me. So, in essence, any rando that you folllow and have previously sent a DM to can call you.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 1 year ago

That's my interpretation. If you follow someone, and have sent them a message previously, it's a reasonable assumption you want to talk to them.

[–] jaybone 1 points 1 year ago

It’s an or not an and. So both conditions don’t have to be true.