Elon Musk Says Twitter Is Going To Get Rid Of The Block Feature, Enabling Greater Harassment

3 years ago by Wander to c/tech

One of the most important tools for trust and safety efforts is the “block” feature, allowing a user to entirely block someone else from following them. Yes, on Twitter you can get around this by g…

People really really really need to leave Twitter already.

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Cyanicalarts 4 points 3 years ago

Twitter is most of my income atm, so unless that changes I'm kinda stuck with it

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Wander 8 points 3 years ago

Fair enough. Would it make sense to start publishing some exclusive content elsewhere to see if your fans have an incentive to move?

Or maybe have some discounts only for requests via Mastodon. People still using Twitter would be paying a Twitter tax effectively.

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Cyanicalarts 5 points 3 years ago

Not a bad idea tbh. I'll give that some thought

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liam 3 points 3 years ago

I can see that helping, the last thing I did on Twitter was to make my profile private and block the owner and I have no intention of going back

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