This is not in any way a “threat to public safety” but it’s still a cringe decision.
The inability to block users actually makes moderation even more necessary and makes it harder to allow “free speech.”
If Musk really does this, instead of backtracking off it, he’ll really kill the site. He had never realized that the way he uses Twitter is NOT the way that everyone does. He can’t see past his own nose, and no one there will tell him no.
I reckon he’ll either latch onto the Apple and Google TOS as an excuse to backtrack when it finally gets through his thick skull that this is a terrible idea, or he’ll double down on it because no one tells him what to do.
If Musk really does this, instead of backtracking off it, he’ll really kill the site.
Man I think I read this somewhere else. Oh right it was the last ten times he did batshit things, and yet…
He can’t push his apartheid propaganda if people refuse to read it, right? Dutchie is just missing one thing… you don’t have to use Twitter. Free yourself from the site, and it no longer holds any power over you.
It’s super easy to say “just don’t use the site,” but you gotta understand that that’s a lot like saying “just stop hanging out with your friends” when they invite some neonazi to every get-together. Yeah, obviously it’s what you have to do, but it still absolutely blows, especially if you don’t fit in with anyone else.
Dude I don’t care how long I’ve known the person, if I find out they are inviting neo Nazis to parties then I am fucking gone.
I like this since it forces people who do not like having their world view shaken up to have their world view shaken up. This will either limit echo chambers on the platform or cause people to leave Twitter. Most likely cause people to leave Twitter which I am all for since it is a big tech spyware platform filled with toxic people.
Nostr is were it is at! Not mastodon.
BTW I do not have a Twitter account nor do I use Twitter.
I agree with the sentiment, but it doesn’t hold up in reality.
Having any sort of engagement with rightoids results in your feed getting filled with Nazi shit.
You obviously don’t use Twitter if you think well-argued/constructive challenges to worldviews are the sorts of things people need the blocking feature for.
For some twitter users use the blocking feature to live in a echo chamber. For some it is to block spam. For some it is to block rude people.
The con of no blocking feature is not able to block spam.
