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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.
Above and beyond being a narcissist who cannot abide anyone shutting off his voice, it’s also about how anger drives up engagement. So:
Blocks -> less anger -> less engagement
No blocks -> more anger -> more engagement
Consider also how people with his personality type generally benefit by destabilizing whatever social situation they find themselves in and use it to their benefit, and how violently opposed he is to being shut down personally, and how well it works for him to ensure that anyone can still post to anyone else’s feed and be seen there even if they are muted by that user.
For him there’s literally zero downside.
Except losing the next wave of users who decide to finally wipe and get off the Xitter.
What in the actual fuck does he think is going to happen
He’s going to be able to harass everyone that had blocked him.
I bet he will still be able to block users without them knowing too
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.
I’m betting I can reverse engineer how to create spam accounts in a mostly automated fashion faster than he can ban accounts. And I bet a lot of other people can do the same.
I feel very confident saying that he’s not gonna win this one.
So… Wait.
This means someone can just @ someone else and destroy their feed with hate or dick pics or whatever?!
Yep, I think so. And “someone else” includes Elon.
Do with that information what you will :D
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.
I agree, he seems unwell and the attention is continuing the negative spiral. Unfortunately, I don’t think we can control what people are interested in. This is a total spectacle and media circus
Yeah, but every time these stories blow up, Mastodon, Threads, and BlueSky gets another user base boost. I’m ok with that. These stories keep making the alternative communities more and more viable.
