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dirtmayor ( dirtmayor@beehaw.org )  to TechnologyEnglish · 3 years ago

Elon Musk Says Twitter Is Going To Get Rid Of The Block Feature, Enabling Greater Harassment

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Elon Musk Says Twitter Is Going To Get Rid Of The Block Feature, Enabling Greater Harassment

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dirtmayor ( dirtmayor@beehaw.org )  to TechnologyEnglish · 3 years ago
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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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    As a member of a rather vulnerable minority, I had made pretty liberal use of the block feature on Twitter. Of course, I left when Musk took over and switched to Mastodon, but my account’s still there. I didn’t delete it or anything. Might have to now.

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      I deleted mine the day Elon bought it… Lol. I honestly never cared for Twitter too much but I admit I get a lot of news from it (specifically because I am following the ukrainian situation pretty closely).

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      I’m not part of any minority, but sympathize and will be deleting my account now. However, I’m wondering if I should block everything I see first the refresh several times. Knowing that 1 cent came out of their wallet because of me sounds pretty enticing nbl

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        The mastodon instance hosted by the same people as this lemmy instance is nice.

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