Guessing we should brace for incoming.
Elon Musk Says Twitter Is Going To Get Rid Of The Block Feature, Enabling Greater Harassment

One of the most important tools for trust and safety efforts is the “block” feature, allowing a user to entirely block someone else from following them. Yes, on Twitter you can get around this by g…

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@gedvondur @WarnerCrocker Perhaps not a coincidence, one of my few blocks on that site, before I abandoned it completely, was to block Musk himself.
@WarnerCrocker he hasn’t thought that one through very well, since the site is full of right wing, nazi, white supremacist lunatics.
I have a hunch formerly blocked folks will now be able to screenshot some pretty horrible stuff Musk would rather not have show up in WaPo articles
@voron Why should he start thinking anything through now? Well or otherwise.

@voron @WarnerCrocker Hasn't he?

I'm pretty certain that this is all a giant tax fraud and he's trying to deliberately create a bankruptcy while still maintaining just enough reasonable doubt that a court won't convict him.

@Yora @voron I’ve thought this too. Though he’s probably exhausted the possibility of giving new meaning to the legal term “reasonable doubt”
@WarnerCrocker We long passed the point where there was any way to possibly distinguish true announcements from parody.
@Yora Exactly the state of mind this entire movement of assholes want us to live in.

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whew, there for a minute I thought masto was deleting block as a feature.

That would cause a bit of chaos.

@WarnerCrocker I know it’s a pain to deal with an influx of new users learning the norms, but it’s inevitable. We have reached critical mass - we will attract anyone who is pushed away by the other networks.
@mos_8502 The pain is worth the gain. (FYI I was trying to be humorous with the post.)
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The sooner it’s destroyed completely the better. It can only get worse as long as the chief fascist is in charge.
@WarnerCrocker It’s going to get quite busy around here!
@WarnerCrocker The man is really doing everything he can to get people to finally fuck off this agitation platform, but the stupidity of the herd is greater than any of us ever suspected. 🥱
@AmiW Concur. I’m equal parts amazed and not surprised.

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What do you think of this speculation that Apple might drop X from the app store if Elon removes the block feature?

https://9to5mac.com/2023/08/18/elon-musk-says-twitter-will-no-longer-let-you-block-other-people/

Elon Musk says Twitter will no longer let you block other people - 9to5Mac

In another possibly shortsighted decision, Elon Musk says Twitter will soon remove the ability to block people – with the exception...

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@pzriddle Interesting. If this turns into a thing will be fascinating to see who blinks
@WarnerCrocker I probably blocked 10k advertisers before I gave up on that sinking ship.

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Andy Ngo was mad that Alejandra Carabello blocks people. That's what this is about.

@WarnerCrocker I love it. "too many people have blocked me, remove the ability to block"
@WarnerCrocker - Or leave X/Twitter for better-managed alternatives.
@WarnerCrocker I literally survived there by blocking over 50,000 german rightwing accounts. I still received threats, they vandalized my car. Fun, fun, fun being there without the ability to stop them boosting tweets into their bubbles…