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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.
You think being inevitably forced to see every bit of harassment and spam is going to make that platform more popular and financially viable? Nah, if anything this is free advertising for Mastodon.
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What in the actual fuck does he think is going to happen
I have him blocked. It's my fault. He noticed and now he is going to axe the whole feature
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So... Wait.
This means someone can just @ someone else and destroy their feed with hate or dick pics or whatever?!
Sounds like people should start setting up nasty ass porn bots and have them spam Musk constantly
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"it makes no sense" literally every social media site in existence has the block feature, and the reason is to help people prevent harassment. Elon is like a fucking toddler, it's obvious he just wants to get rid of blocking because he's pissy about being blocked by other people.
The block "feature" is a required tool for being listed on the Google and Apple stores, among others.
Removing it will get Twitter delisted from them as well.
That'd be nice if it actually applied, but Apple has already made exceptions for X among other large companies to allow them to play by different rules in the store. So I'm not holding my breath for any sort of punishment.
Examples:
- X got a one letter App Store name that was previously against the rules (other devs need their app name to be at least 2 characters) (more info)
- YouTube had been blocking iOS PiP background playback (not sure if they still do) and put that feature behind the YouTube Premium subscription. Background playback and PiP is part of iOS's system capabilities and the rule specifically says it's not allowed. See Apple's guidelines section 3.2.2 (ii) here. With this, one could make the argument that PiP would only support system supported video decoding, and YouTube uses DASH for higher resolution videos, but YouTube does offer video and audio streams that are natively supported by Apple as well so I don't hold much support for this argument.
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I mean it's literally in the terms and conditions of both the App Store and Play Store for social media to have a block button lol
Elon complaining about some conspirancy on why their app got taken down for not complying.
This is incredibly consistent with the "free speech" crowd thinking free speech entitles you to an audience.
Unreal. It's not even incompetence, he really is just tanking the site on purpose.
No he's not.
He's a right wing grifter and always has been. And like many on the right, he views harassment as a form of "free speech" which should be acceptable.
He's not tanking the site on purpose. He's tanking it because his bullshit ideology naturally results in creating a hostile environment that people don't want to be a part of.
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The block feature is not there out of the goodness of their CEO's heart.
It is there to limit liability from harassment. After all, why police harassment laws at your expense. When you can get the end user to enforce it for you.
It's just Dumb evil.
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This is so dumb, what is he thinking? What's the angle?
Dumbness aside, Twitter is only usable if you block all of the blue check spammers who add nothing to any discussion.
Maybe he's doing it so you can't block blue checks? But it still doesn't make a whole lot of sense.
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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.
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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“Mr. Billionaire Tech Company CEO, what was your detailed reasoning for the removal of a highly important feature that benefits way more users than the ones it harms?”
“It makes no sense”
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Hasn't Elon blocked people before tho? And even been public when blocking some people?
Don't worry, he's going to be able to keep it doing in the meantime it becomes a premium feature.
Huh, I have never been a fan of blocking people, but this is a very dumb move, normal Twitter news of course.
Blocking people is essential, I've blocked tons of people and communities on here already
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Just when you think he's run out of stupid decisions to make, he does it again.
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He is actually, seriously saying "I don't get it, so it must be bad/unnecessary"
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I recommend just blocking the entirely of Xwitter. Your life will be better off.
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Is this man actually retarded or is he trolling us? Seems like he's intentionally shitting on Twitter
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