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Really depends on your feed, I first muted Elon, and only follow artists, so that's all my feed is, no hate or any racism.

pavlov 10mo ago
But you had to mute the owner and sole decision maker of the platform to get that result. How long will he allow the peasants to mute or block him?
- TSiege 10mo ago
  You literally can't block people anymore on X https://www.cnet.com/tech/blocking-on-xtwitter-doesnt-work-anymore-heres-how-to-lock-down-your-posts/ https://www.cnet.com/tech/blocking-on-xtwitter-doesnt-work-a...
  - tb_technical 10mo ago
    From the article you posted, blocking still stops people from communicating with you. The only difference with how it is now is they can still view your posts. I don't have a dog in this fight (don't have Twitter) but this seems like a good feature. On reddit I've been blocked and then called a Nazi/reprehensible person/nonhuman scum. When blocked, you can't see what people say about you. I would like to report the comments for harassment, but I can't. Blocking should stop someone from being able to communicate with you - but it shouldn't be a shield against reporting harassment.
FuriouslyAdrift 10mo ago
I made and follow my own "lists" and that blocks just about anything (including most ads). Also, having just under 10,000 block and mute words helps a bit.
- tbrownaw 10mo ago
  > blocks just about anything (including most ads). Do you not run uBlock Origin for some reason? Is the modern web even usable living like that?
sixtyj 10mo ago
The same. I follow tech accounts and some parody accounts and haven’t never seen racism&co. But x’s algorithm is a self-evolving b*tch so my recent feed can change anytime…
kayamon 10mo ago
It doesn't. Elon will happily spam your notifications with his own racist tweets directly, even if you don't follow him.
rsynnott 10mo ago
Back when I still had an account, after never seeing his content in the previous ~15 years I had been using Twitter, he was suddenly all over my feed. I had to mute him, and then, when that didn't work, block him, within months of his takeover.

pavlov 10mo ago

But you had to mute the owner and sole decision maker of the platform to get that result. How long will he allow the peasants to mute or block him?

TSiege 10mo ago
You literally can't block people anymore on X https://www.cnet.com/tech/blocking-on-xtwitter-doesnt-work-anymore-heres-how-to-lock-down-your-posts/ https://www.cnet.com/tech/blocking-on-xtwitter-doesnt-work-a...
- tb_technical 10mo ago
  From the article you posted, blocking still stops people from communicating with you. The only difference with how it is now is they can still view your posts. I don't have a dog in this fight (don't have Twitter) but this seems like a good feature. On reddit I've been blocked and then called a Nazi/reprehensible person/nonhuman scum. When blocked, you can't see what people say about you. I would like to report the comments for harassment, but I can't. Blocking should stop someone from being able to communicate with you - but it shouldn't be a shield against reporting harassment.

FuriouslyAdrift 10mo ago

I made and follow my own "lists" and that blocks just about anything (including most ads). Also, having just under 10,000 block and mute words helps a bit.

tbrownaw 10mo ago
> blocks just about anything (including most ads). Do you not run uBlock Origin for some reason? Is the modern web even usable living like that?

sixtyj 10mo ago

The same. I follow tech accounts and some parody accounts and haven’t never seen racism&co. But x’s algorithm is a self-evolving b*tch so my recent feed can change anytime…

kayamon 10mo ago

It doesn't. Elon will happily spam your notifications with his own racist tweets directly, even if you don't follow him.

rsynnott 10mo ago

Back when I still had an account, after never seeing his content in the previous ~15 years I had been using Twitter, he was suddenly all over my feed. I had to mute him, and then, when that didn't work, block him, within months of his takeover.