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The simplest answer is that Elon is blocked by a lot of people, as are many people whose voices he wants heard, and believes that it goes against his flavor of
by gkoberger 2y ago
The simplest answer is that Elon is blocked by a lot of people, as are many people whose voices he wants heard, and believes that it goes against his flavor of "free speech".
He's been unblocking himself over the years, and this feels like the next logical step for him.
I think its simple... a lot of people have blocked Elon, so Elon thinks blocking is bad.
- jdminhbg 2y agoThat simple answer is wrong, because the changes don't make it so that people who blocked Elon see Elon's posts now.
- a0123 2y agoHave you not paid attention to twitter since he bought it? The guy has been forcing his accounts and shit takes onto everyone's timelines. Accounts have mysteriously started following his account when they never manually did it. Muting his account hasn't properly worked since he bought twitter. It's literally what he's been doing it since day 1 of purchase. Sorry if that sounds a bit rude, but I'm just baffled by people literally denying reality when it smacks them in the face repeatedly.
- jdminhbg 2y agoI'm sorry you're frustrated, but it has nothing to do with this change, which works in the opposite direction.
- steele 2y ago[flagged]
- xeyownt 2y agoNo it doesn't. If you blocked Elon's account, you'll still see it on your timeline.
- crvdgc 2y agoThe change is to let people who you've blocked (Elon) to see your posts, rather than their posts. Otherwise, blocking would be useless.
- jdminhbg 2y agoI don't particularly care to argue about whether or not that's true, I'm just pointing out that it's not the change being discussed here, which works in the opposite direction.
- gordian-mind 2y agoMuting his account has worked for me.
- maxlin 2y agoThat's such a silly take I can't know if you're even serious. Not that many important people block Elon, but even if they did, Elon could just ask the team to adjust his client / account accordingly especially if it doesn't give him any special (non-public) rights
- gkoberger 2y agoSure but that’s not how he thinks. He’s missing the ability to think about his own self in context of others. So he thinks that if he’s blocked, that’s a real problem facing everyone, so it must be fixed in the name of free speech.
- maxlin 2y agoEven if he did ... which I don't think is true, if and when it produces positive and logical results like this, that's always good. How this worked before made little sense, and this could really as well have been fixed during the Twitter times without seeming any less on point. I do like tech platforms where the decisionmakers and stakeholders actually know and use the product. Elon candidly streaming Diablo, even for some long sessions, once a while on X is a great thing to see and I hope it is putting pressure on the team to improve streaming there even more, given the latency and layout are still a bit behind the bigger players on that even though improvements like the stream chat have been added.