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[–] bitwolf@lemmy.one 16 points 2 years ago (1 children)

I need to block like 5 bot follows and three fake crypto impersonation accounts including me in a retweet daily. This would break the experience completely for me.

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[–] HeyThisIsntTheYMCA@lemmy.world 16 points 2 years ago (1 children)

"I'm tired of people blocking me"

Wait did I say that or just think that?

"Wait did I say that or just think that??"

Oh HeyThisIsn'TheYMCA You need more horse stewardesses

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[–] scarabic@lemmy.world 16 points 2 years ago (2 children)

I wonder when he says “it makes no sense” if he is just confused by the complexity of it. Because blocking is more complicated than it might seem at first. It introduces issues where different people see different versions of things, and in some ways blocking can be a little like choosing to put your head in the sand regarding someone, but they can still be around, flinging shit at you.

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[–] sparr@lemmy.world 15 points 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago) (2 children)
  • "I don't want to see content from this person", legit
  • "I don't want to get notifications about this person's content", legit
  • "I don't want this person's content to be able to link to my profile or use my name", dubious
  • "I want this person to have to log out to see my content", nonsense
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[–] kryptonianCodeMonkey@lemmy.world 13 points 2 years ago

You could argue against creating the feature, but once it already exists and it's not taking up any real processing power or cluttering the interface, why would you ever remove any feature. Does he understand it? No. Do some people use it and find it beneficial? Probably, yeah. Are you forced to use it? No. So what's the problem?

It's like a car manufacturer ordering a recall to remove the the mirror on the passenger side visor because he never uses it. Some people do, my dude, it's not hurting anything, and it will actually cost you money to remove it instead of leaving it. Just leave it alone, dude.

Or... he's not being honest and he wants to remove it because it hurts his ego to know that so many block his account. Yeah, it's probably that.

[–] vox@sopuli.xyz 13 points 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago) (7 children)

i have like 500 people in my Twitter block list :|

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[–] Snapz@lemmy.world 13 points 2 years ago

This is what it sounds like when a severely divorced person screams, "WHY WON'T THIS FUCKING COMPANY FAIL!!! I'M DOING EVERYTHING I CAN TO ELIMINATE THIS THREAT AND IT WON'T DIE!"

[–] ch3ck3rs@lemmy.world 13 points 2 years ago (1 children)

Yea no way that's happening. The guy can get away with a lot but burning the entire app to the ground probably has a few legal safeguards.

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[–] njm1314@lemmy.world 12 points 2 years ago

'You'll listen to nazi propaganda even if we have to shove it down your throat!'

Musk probably

[–] Yewb@lemmy.world 12 points 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago)

He literally bought it to try to make a payment processor and be king of the internet.

Only twitter users think twitter is important.

It makes no sense.

I truly can't imagine how this is true. It's such a simple thing to understand.

[–] Skulgan@lemmy.world 11 points 2 years ago (2 children)

Don't most app stores have terms and conditions that require social media websites to have actual functional block features? Having them only work for DMs doesn't feel very functional...

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[–] Prethoryn@lemmy.world 10 points 2 years ago (6 children)

Imagine if Elon was playing a long con game and is actually trying to kill Twitter on purpose by disguising himself as the rest of the Republicans in support of them.

Like this "10 dimensional chess" game is him actually just doing the most mundane and simple changes to kill the platform intentionally.

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