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It might look like this, but thinking about it, I guess it's still useful in reducing unwanted interactions. People are lazy, and thus adding even a little fric
by boo-ga-ga 2y ago
It might look like this, but thinking about it, I guess it's still useful in reducing unwanted interactions. People are lazy, and thus adding even a little friction can help a lot in preventing them from doing stalkering, spreading hate etc.
I.e. of course it's possible to login with another user, find the one who blocked you, make a screenshot or something and then quote it or perform any other interaction in your main account. But it's obviously not very easy.
So I'm sure it worked as a solution to reduce negative interactions on the platform. However, Musk doesn't want reducing these, his goal is spreading chaos and forcing his narratives, so the decision totally makes sense for him.
- felipeerias 2y agoIsn't it a bit weird that a person can share a screenshot of a tweet by an account that has blocked them? It shouldn't be that hard to check if an image looks like a tweet and, if it does, find out the exact match.
- JumpCrisscross 2y ago> his goal is spreading chaos and forcing his narratives It may be as simple as revealing blocked content is a short path to increasing outrage and thus engagement. Like, I could see Facebook doing this on Threads.
- concordDance 2y ago[flagged]
- boo-ga-ga 2y agoI am actually very sure that Elon is an extremely smart person. I can also see that he amplifies and posts disinformation posts that spread hateful narratives. That's why I make a conclusion that his intentions are reaching his goals in this, quite evil and harmful for the society way. Even if I liked him, this still would had hold true.
- johnnyanmac 2y agoThey should have had an "ignore" feature from the start, as well as block. They can post all the vile they want, I just don't want to read it. But IME, the kind of people I want to block are the exact kinds of people that would go through all that effort to keep trying to cause drama.