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’.