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If you’re still using Twitter, not only are you part of the problem, you like the abuse.
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.
You think being inevitably forced to see every bit of harassment and spam is going to make that platform more popular and financially viable? Nah, if anything this is free advertising for Mastodon.
How does mastodon work compared to twitter? I keep hearing about it but I’m still trying to figure out lemmy.
In the same way lemmy is like many reddits communicating with eachother; mastodon is comparable to many twitters that can share users and posts with eachother
Removed as a protest against the community’s support for campaigns to bring about the deaths of members of marginalized groups, and opposition to private entities working to prevent such campaigns, together with it’s mindless flaming and downvoting of anyone who disagrees.
Firefish is another fediverse microblogging platform and it has search and quote tweets, but you can’t follow hashtags in your regular timeline (you can set up a separate timeline called an antenna that regularly pulls in posts according to a list of words or hashtags you specify). It also has a tweet deck style layout you can setup and you can easily follow and be followed by mastodon users from a firefish account.
There are other alternatives as well, but this is the one I am most familiar with.
It’s very similar to Twitter, I’d say even more than Lemmy is to Reddit. Mastodon federated like Lemmy but in practice you can follow anyone from any instance. You just need to follow people using @username@instance.tld rather than just @username
Mastodon “block” is one-way, Twitter is two-way (it blocks the other person seeing your posts if they’re logged in).
Just when you think he’s run out of stupid decisions to make, he does it again.
Yet another reason to be glad I quit using it in October 2022.
There’s no good reason to make people interact with people who are bothering them.
How else would a child of apartheid Africa get the apartheid message out to the world in 2023? Of course you have to disable the block feature.
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!”
I agree. I always thought it was stupid that you could stop people from seeing what you post about them on a public forum.
Have you ever been sexually harassed, non-stop for weeks or months?
Have you ever muted someone? Posting shit about someone behind a block can also be considered harassment.
by dummies, yes. so is gossiping a felony in your book?
🎶X gon’ take it from you!🎶
Just stop using Twitter. It’s easy.
This is incredibly consistent with the “free speech” crowd thinking free speech entitles you to an audience.
While removing it is stupid, I also think it’s a limited feature. I am blocked by Jason Schreier like many people in gaming culture are. (I didn’t even comment on his post, but he did a mass block based on who responded to another person’s post because that’s the type of person he is) He’s a relatively famous gaming journalist so when someone links his messages I can’t see them, right?
Well I can, I just open an incognito window, and I still get to see what ever he’s posting, because when you aren’t logged in you get to see everything.
So in that way Block doesn’t really make a lot of sense. Limiting who can interact with you might needed, but limiting who can see what you post doesn’t really.
There is still “Mute” which I use much more often to get rid of “Console war” crap, from my feed, but honestly I also just don’t use “X” Because in general I haven’t found it that useful, and feels like it’s always been a massive time waster. If Elon is making other people realize that now, I’d say he’s doing a great job in waking up people to the fact that it’s always been a pretty shitty social media.
I think you have to be logged in to view a person’s feed now though.
Don’t know the rules (They probably keep changing) but you can see it here in incognito mode.
Even if that was the case, I’d make an alt account no one knows about to be able to look at his tweets if I cared enough. The point I was making it is it’s dumb to “Block what people can see” when they can get around it with a couple button clicks.
(And to be clear because I’m getting downvoting, I’m not saying blocking is bad, but the implementation is pretty dumb, and at least removing the “You can’t see this message because he blocked you” should be removed.)
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.
I cant wait for Twitter/X to cease to exist.
This year’s module content on social media is going to be an absolute cracker.
I don’t even need to write jokes into my classes, the man does it for me!
The block “feature” is a required tool for being listed on the Google and Apple stores, among others.
Removing it will get Twitter delisted from them as well.
