Carl T. BergstromIt's never been about freedom of speech.
All along it's been about toxic assholes feeling entitled to an audience for their bullshit.
It's the same logic that led various asshats to claim that I was attacking free speech when I left twitter for mastodon.
So I didn't have it quite right, as @sterlingericsson noted.
The reason for allowing mutes but eliminating blocks is not to force me to read other people's bullshit, but rather to allow them to attack me for my views, beliefs, and — probably most importantly to Musk — for my very identity.
Jason Petersen (he)@ct_bergstrom i mean in the sense if a user is public you can just pop over to an incognito window to see their posts, he’s not wrong? (This is only to say an aspect of what he said is right, not why he said it, or his view)
I often mute rather than block so the person I’m muting won’t know. If I block, they can figure it out and use alts or their followers to wage war.
flere-imsaho 🇺🇦@jason it's about what others see when they interact with your messages. block removes the arsehole's ability to further reply and leave shit in your feed.
these are different statements. mute is ’i can't be arsed to interact with you’, while block is ‘get out of my space’.
@mawhrin @ct_bergstrom actually from that angle, it’s very clear what Elon wants: as the OP says here, Elon wants people to be able to reply to your views with theirs and show up in the detail pane to others and for you to have no recourse. I hadn’t thought about that, but it’s exactly the “I can say something and everyone has to see it” “speech” they mean.
In a way, having to host others’ opinions under YOUR posts is a kind of forced speech in itself, but Elon won’t give a shit about that.
Outeast@jason @mawhrin @ct_bergstrom I think it's even simpler: the blue ticks are paying to have their voices privileged, and blocking defeats that. It's all about entitlement. Everything else is rationalisation.
Prediction: If this happens, then not long after, blocking will be reinstated as a blue-tick benefit. There are tons of high-profile blue-tickers who are very heavy with the block, and they'll riot if it goes away.
ajf@mawhrin @jason @ct_bergstrom "Nextdoor" is a social network that already follows the model only mute, no block. In addition to location based, rather than follow based interaction. Which means you have no way at all to stop interacting with your local conspiracy theorist. It is extremely hostile.
Chop@ct_bergstrom @sterlingericsson yes and no. While people being attacked—but not seeing the attacks—will be a consequence of this, I’d imagine this is purely about the user experience of a blue checkmark user. They are being blocked in bulk by many very popular accounts.
Example: imagine buying a verified account only to not be able to see Dril because he’s blocking all blue checkmarks en masse.
Phil Rees@ct_bergstrom @sterlingericsson I think part of the motivation is to increase impression and engagement counts as assholes pour over the tweets of people they hate prior to spitting their own venomous bile.
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Richard@ct_bergstrom I haven't been on twitter for quite some time now, but I have read here and there just how radical it has changed, from bad to worse. That is evident with just how many likes that post has. I am continuously so disappointed so many #classicalmusic artists I love and #StarTrek actors I love are still on that platform.
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Jonathan Kamens 86 47@PamelaBarroway @self @ct_bergstrom @georgetakei @JeriLRyan Takei is here but alas he is also still posting on Twitter.
IverCoder@ct_bergstrom somebody did THAT? Such irony, you don't have the same opinion or stay in the same platform as them and now they're criticizing you because they think you're "attacking free speech". Lol