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  • alyaza [they/she]@beehaw.orgMEnglish
    5·
    2 years ago

    it’s unavoidable to center Elon here but can we just take a step back and appreciate how stupid, bad, and completely antithetical to a usable website this idea is? blocking has been a feature on like everything since phpBB forums because it literally just works. it’s an easy way to curate your experience without escalating and it’s a logical imitation of being able to simply avoid a person in real life. the idea of removing this in favor of nothing but mutes is just goofy as fuck (and if you make muting the new “block”, what’s even the difference between them? people will just use them basically the same way!).

    • LadyAutumn@lemmy.blahaj.zoneEnglish
      3·
      2 years ago

      Muting means other people can still comment on your stuff, and everyone else but you can see it.

      Its so transphobes and homophobes can continue commenting on LGBT people’s content.

      • Hot Saucerman@lemmy.mlEnglish
        3·
        2 years ago

        Elon Musk really fucking hates his trans daughter. Dad of the century, right here.

        Seriously good on his daughter for dropping his scumbag ass. She deserves far better from a parent.

        • witchonabike@discuss.tchncs.deEnglish
          2·
          2 years ago

          I wasn’t aware he had more children than the one with the weird-ass name. The private life section on wikipedia is a ride…

          • Hot Saucerman@lemmy.mlEnglish
            2·
            2 years ago

            He ascribes to Longtermism and like his associate Jeffery Epstein, he thinks his genes are magically special, and so he wants as many offspring as humanly possible: while not actually giving one shit about the quality of life for any of them.

            It’s really interesting, because he fucking hates his own father (Errol is also a creep who fathered a child with his step-daughter, who he raised from childhood), but can’t put together that he is exactly the fuck the same as his creep ass father.

  • HexesofVexes@lemmy.worldEnglish
    5·
    2 years ago

    Wow…

    Is there some kind of tech CEO competition running or something?

    “Who can alienate their user base the fastest”

    • surewhynotlem@lemmy.worldEnglish
      3·
      2 years ago

      There’s a saying, " never attribute to malice what is easily explained by incompetence".

      But we’re quickly reaching the point where it’s no longer easily explained incompetence. Elon is either the most incompetent person in the known universe, which is saying a lot, or he’s doing this on purpose for some reason.

      I’m not into conspiracies, but it’s starting to make more sense if he’s actively trying to tank the stock.

      • generalpotato@lemmy.worldEnglish
        2·
        2 years ago

        I mean, 2024 isn’t that far away. It’s pretty clear who he’s pandering to in the name of “free speech” or “townsquare of the internet” or whatever shitty rationalization he uses to explains his nutty behavior.

      • norealme@lemmy.worldEnglish
        1·
        2 years ago

        Once upon a time, long ago, in the very beginning, I liked Twitter as a stream of instant information from all POV. Then Twitter became a haven for bots and a propaganda tool. Is it possible that Musk bought Twitter so that he could take it to the point of absurdity and destroy it?

      • Fauxreigner@lemmy.worldEnglish
        1·
        2 years ago

        There’s no stock to tank. You could argue that he’s trying to tank the company, but there are easier ways to do that.

          • Fauxreigner@lemmy.worldEnglish
            2·
            2 years ago

            There’s no stock or similar security, so the SEC doesn’t care at all. Could be a plausible deniability thing, I just think it’s more likely that he really is that dumb, given the stories about Tesla/SpaceX having teams that basically existed just to control him.

  • NoxiousPluK@lemmy.blahaj.zone
    4·
    2 years ago

    Fun fact: a block feature is required to be accepted by the Apple AppStore review process. So Twitter will disappear from Apple devices with this change.

    Since this got some votes and became visible, here’s the source:

    Apps with user-generated content present particular challenges, ranging from intellectual property infringement to anonymous bullying. To prevent abuse, apps with user-generated content or social networking services must include:

    - A method for filtering objectionable material from being posted to the app

    - A mechanism to report offensive content and timely responses to concerns

    - The ability to block abusive users from the service

    - Published contact information so users can easily reach you

    https://developer.apple.com/app-store/review/guidelines/#user-generated-content

    • StrayCatFrump@beehaw.org
      3·
      2 years ago

      Hmm. Hate to be a downer, but that sounds like there needs to be a way for the service itself to block (ban) users and material, not for users to be able to block other users. So I wouldn’t be too optimistic about Apple’s response…

    • Tekhne@sh.itjust.works
      1·
      2 years ago

      Apple’s review process is inconsistent at best. I used to work for an iOS app and it took several years before they blocked our release for not having a report feature on products. Never had the ability to block users, despite the ability to DM people.

      Plus, for an app the size of Twitter, Apple will likely ignore most rules that doesn’t lose them money.

  • breadsmasher@lemmy.worldEnglish
    3·
    2 years ago

    Elongated Muskrat has discovered just how many accounts are blocking him. His ego can’t take that. His FrEeSpEeCh must be heard

  • Alacran@mander.xyzEnglish
    3·
    2 years ago

    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!

  • Butterbee (She/Her)@beehaw.orgEnglish
    3·
    2 years ago

    So what you’re saying is, if I have a Twitter account and I start blocking many MANY people it costs Elon money? Interesting.

    • petrescatraian@libranet.de
      1·
      2 years ago

      @Hypersapien This could make his decision a wonderful backfire

      Imagine posting something like:

      You can’t block this post, can you? You could if you’d joined [mastodon instance]. [then continue with a few words about the instance in question]. It is part of the decentralized platform called Mastodon, where you can reach millions of other real people both on this and other similar servers of the network. Sign up by [provides steps to sign up]

      Edit: same can be done with Calckey for example, but with no need to promote a special server, since Calckey doesn’t force you to sign to it’s main server through any of the apps iirc

      @dirtmayor

      • lohrun@fediverse.boo
        0·
        2 years ago

        I think we need something like that for twitter and for Reddit. Having something quick and concise with some links where to go is bound to get more bound headed our way

        • petrescatraian@libranet.de
          1·
          2 years ago

          @lohrun sadly I don’t think spez is that stupid to fuck every little thing up from a social network, all at once almost. Sure, I think you can buy some ad space on Reddit, but imo there’s nothing too evident for this to be easy peasy.

          Not to mention, Mastodon was already larger than Lemmy when the crisis point happened (the other two contenders, kbin - which is still in beta - and Lotide, are even smaller!). Maybe convincing the sub admins to try to be admins of communities and see how it goes? (Except that there are multiple communities here on the same topic, but on different instances - again, not sure how this is gonna work out)

          @dirtmayor @Hypersapien

  • DJDarren@beehaw.orgEnglish
    2·
    2 years ago

    Elon Musk is a gaping, farting anus. I pay as much attention to the sounds from a gaping, farting anus, as I do from him.

      • Trizza Tethis@sh.itjust.worksEnglish
        1·
        2 years ago

        I mean, maybe? 4channers do some pretty crazy shit when they’re raiding, at least from what I’ve seen. Remember when they raided Microsoft Tay’s Twitter and turned it into a white supremacist?

    • Sploosh the Water@vlemmy.netEnglish
      2·
      2 years ago

      At the top levels, they are rich and well-connected enough that they don’t have to worry about failing like regular people.

      They can burn millions, billions of dollars and still get out with a fat paycheck, a pat on the back, and another CEO/exec job lined up by one of their many wealthy friends. Either that, or they are “forced” into retirement where they live large for their remaining lives.

      I wish somebody would force me into a wealthy retirement…

    • vinniep@beehaw.orgEnglish
      2·
      2 years ago

      Money. Tech was hot and trendy, so VCs were willing to continue pouring cash into a bottomless pit of unprofitable tech platforms, and now they’re not so everyone has to figure out how to make money off of the community. In a surprise to absolutely no one that’s been paying attention, companies filled with people that have never had to be profitable before are really bad at turning their company profitable and instead only manage to light large sections of it on fire. 🤷

  • bizzwell@lemmy.worldEnglish
    2·
    2 years ago

    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.

    • Helix@beehaw.orgEnglish
      2·
      2 years ago

      sadly, Mastodon currently still is pretty centralised around a few very big instances. I hope the Fediverse gets more decentralised…

      • Pigeon@beehaw.orgEnglish
        2·
        2 years ago

        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.

      • bizzwell@lemmy.worldEnglish
        2·
        2 years ago

        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.

        • Helix@beehaw.orgEnglish
          2·
          2 years ago

          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.

    • MaxAmperage@lemmy.worldEnglish
      2·
      2 years ago

      There’s been a big effort to block anybody with a blue checkmark since any major story or viral post will have them automatically bumped up to the top of the replies. So, when the whiners started complaining, he started openly considering this.

      • 💡dim@lemmy.worldEnglish
        2·
        2 years ago

        He will end up “compromising”.

        You can block people, but only people without blue check marks.

        Wanna harass someone, wanna be a troll, subscribe to Twitter blue and you can’t be blocked…