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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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    Inertia. Most people won’t up an leave to Mastodon.

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      With Twitter, situation is different since most celebs are still on it and people generally use it just to see what the popular people are saying. Once (and if) these celebrities join Mastodon, Twitter would start to finall fall.

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      Or they’re waiting for invites to bluesky.

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