This is a most excellent place for technology news and articles.
Get out, now.
It's amazing how people convinced themselves they need all these platforms in their lives. Meta, X, TikTok, YouTube - they can do whatever they want to their users, and the users just take it.
I've learned to drop social media platforms as soon as they pull shit I'm uncomfortable with and live a happy life, somehow.
"They make communicating with your friends and family easier!"
Um, E-mail has been doing that since the dawn of the Internet. There is absolutely nothing at all that has made communicating any easier since even instant messaging. All that social media has turned into, is nothing but megaphones for the idiot masses.
They literally don't. X pushing things to the top of ur feed, Facebook polluting your timeline with random video shares, it all makes it harder to see the content you actually care about
Facebook before the algorithm was awesome. It was just the most recent stuff your friends did in that literal order. There was nothing wrong with it lol. Or at least I didn’t think so.
When I visit Facebook, it's about 8:1 "recommended for you" vs people I actually know.
I'm not trying to defend what it has become but social media can be good to keep updated or in contact with people. You're not gonna email everyone pictures of your vacation or whatever. Or to keep up with people you don't see nearly as often as you'd like because of, well, life. People do take it way to far and either post way too much info or take everything too serious.
After being on fediverse it’s been great how refreshing and natural real decentralized social media is rather than the astroturfed, money and soul sucking dreck that is the big corporate socials are.
I almost wish there was a way that we could encourage growth and somehow let it scale to critical mass through grants and donations. But eventually if the fediverse got to that size then there would be grifters and corporations to ruin our fun.
Probably because he's sad that people are blocking him.
This has to be the reason
Community Notes jumped on that tweet fast:
If the ability to block users was to be removed, X would be in violation of the policies of the App Store as well as the Google Play Store. Potentially, this could lead to X being removed from these platforms.
Pfft, good. I'm sure Musk's response will be "wah, wah, they censor me, wah, wah". Because out of any playbook of republicunt, is to proclaim you're being censored when you're breaking the rules and think free speech applies to just you and your allies.
about time
X is in violation of the App store's naming guidelines. They still managed to shove it through.
Stop using Twitter. Seriously, people, stop using Twitter. It's not going to get better.
Think of this as an IQ test. Those that pass come here, those that fail get Zuck'd, Musk'd & Spez'd.
Conversation at Twitter HQ:
Alternatively:
Staff: Uh, the blocking feature is having some issues.
Emu: Well fix it.
Staff: No one knows how that part works and you fired the guy who wrote it. And then you insulted him.
Emu: Meh, just remove the whole feature.
My guess as to how it went:
That's how it went the last time he brought the subject up. During that hole period where we learned he had the engineers tweak the algorithm to 10x his visibility in the feed.
Both Apple and Google terms of service require apps to have a blocking feature built in. Elmo been spouting off again without actually knowing anything. As of this evening he's figured out that's not something he can actually do and deleted his tweet.
Hey, I just like watching Elon Musk and Twitter destroy each other, alright?
At this point, either he went insane, or he is just making bad decision on purpose to destroy the company out of spite
went insane
Come on, read his statements and actions of the past, say, 5 years. The sanity ship sailed ages ago.
Can Musk do that? I would think this goes against Apple and Android app store rules right?
But it's ok! Because he's an oligarch, he gets an exception.
I killed my Twitter account the day after Muskrat was forced to buy it.
Fun Fact: If he does this, Twitter will get removed from both app stores.
I killed mine the day he unbanned the orange moron. Like, I knew it was going to be a shitshow once Musk got his hands on it within weeks of having it. Soon as he did that unbanning though, I was out.
Both app stores require a block feature?
I can't speak for Apple but Google does. It falls under their user-generated content policy which requires you to "Provides an in-app system for blocking UGC and users". Google is generally the more lenient of the two when it comes to policies, so I'd be highly surprised if Apple didn't have it...
Just stop using Twitter. There's a half-dozen alternatives by now, Jesus Christ.
Take your time and attention somewhere else. Leave.
I left and deleted my account after Elon changed the algorithm to show nothing but his posts. With this decision and the many other bad decisions he's made since buying Twitter, I'm glad I left and I frankly don't miss it.
This will absolutely be abused and people will be harassed, but I feel this is intentional as he continues turning Twitter into a far-right echo chamber.
It's funny how corporate guys will always lie even about dumb shit like this. Of course blocking is a feature, users want to be able to block other users. It's the owner of the website that doesn't want anyone to be able to block him
notice that the only kind of harassment he's likely to experience (in DMs) is the only one that gets a carveout
Get out now before he makes quitting impossible and mandates 10 Xerts a day.
Why is "feature" in quotes though?
Because in musk terms, it must be bad and thrown away.
Hell I got out when the sale was finalized. Anyone who's still hanging on to that whale carcass has gotta be wondering when it'll run out of buoyancy.
I left Twitter. why must I keep hearing about Twitter?
I was never on twitter. Welcome to my world.
We all used to have to hear about it because of politics and celebrities, now we have to hear about it because of Musk antics.
