Probably the number of users blocked him is higher than the “actual” nazis that still follow him and this man baby can’t have that.
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Because the freedom to scream obscenities at total strangers is the most important freedom of all.
/s
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I’ll bet he keeps it for his own account. And in a month, he’ll charge for it.
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Damn, I can’t quite hear that but I can certainly feel it.
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It would still be useful, since no one with a check mark should be trusted, except he’s made it so you can hide the check marks. At this point seeing one is like looking at someone with a price tag still on their shirt
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I only use the Following mode, so my Xitter experience is not as terrible as most people’s.
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Also, while you won’t see them, I’m not sure if it’ll mute them for your followers.
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With each story I read, I’m more convinced that the Saudi royal family has wanted Twitter dead since the days of the Arab Spring, and they’re paying Musk to carry out the hit.
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The furry migration over to BlueSky has picked up serious steam. Just put a fork in it the X/Twitter is done. It will only continue to be very unstable and unusable.
(Also he deleted the tweet apparently but let’s be clear he will continue to break this shit hard)
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If Musk wanted to destroy twitter, he could have done so without flailing around and ruining his reputation, which after all is really what his fortune is based on. I can believe the house of Saud were happy to silence opposition on twitter and don’t really care how it goes from there, but Musk is very plainly not a contract killer, he’s an idiot. I can’t believe how many rakes people will watch a billionaire step on before they consider Hanlon’s razor.
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I don’t have an account anymore but i read some posts that indicated your followers will still see muted accounts.
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Do they define “block” anywhere though? Mute might be sufficient for them, since it does prevent the muting user from seeing the other content.
Although it would be amusing if this was the cause of the tweet deletion 
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This is really the single simplest thing Elno could have done to totally destroy Twitter. I’ve been reading so many stories along the lines of, “Blocking was vital, as the nazis were doxing me in the Twitter comments, in between the death threats.” Mute doesn’t fucking cut it. Elno never thinks these things through, but I’m wondering what he thinks the appropriate response would be to that situation, now. Report it to Twitter? So that two weeks later, you can get the message, “GasAlltheJews88’s message did not violate X’s terms of service”?
In response, all users can do is delete their accounts. I assume new posts can still be set to prevent replies entirely, but I don’t think you can do that with existing posts which will now, for some users, be cess pits that might literally threaten their lives. If this happens, this will finally be the thing that drives people off the service for good.
It certainly would be a typical Elon Musk galaxy brain response. “People are blocking ads? Remove the block ability! Simple!”
In the existing functionality, “mute” means you don’t see the reply, but everyone else does. So anyone doxing you, or posting porn or gore (etc. etc.) in replies would still be there to render your threads toxic for everyone else (and potentially still dangerous to you).
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He’s got this.
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It was then and still is a pretty obvious attempt to get around the failed attempts at making a fascist friendly and amplifying social media sites like Parler, truth, gettr, and so on from scratch and growing it to twitter scale. Since it has been repeatedly shown that you cannot grow a fascist site up to twitter scale (because no one wants to be there),
Elon and his friends decided to see what happens if you just buy that site and make it fascist friendly and amplifying. With a person that is deeply addicted to it charge. So, there was, I think, a plan. It was a dumb one, and it is going exactly as well as I expected,
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…Scalzi is a furry? I never knew.
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That I definitely believe. Something that never seems to have occurred to Musk is that if you make the environment toxic enough, users and advertisers might leave.
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