• Anti-Face Weapon@lemmy.world
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    1 year ago

    This is so dumb, what is he thinking? What’s the angle?

    Dumbness aside, Twitter is only usable if you block all of the blue check spammers who add nothing to any discussion.

    Maybe he’s doing it so you can’t block blue checks? But it still doesn’t make a whole lot of sense.

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      1 year ago

      I half wonder if he is running an experiment to see how much his users are willing to put up with so that all the other tech companies can figure out how far they can push us.

      • FordBeeblebrox@lemmy.world
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        1 year ago

        I think it’s that and ads. Easier to sell promotional stuff when the whole user base is simply incapable of hiding your shill posts.

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        It’s been non-stop advanced bullshit after bullshit coming out of basically all corpos for the past year, but things were always headed in this direction. Muskrat just helped speed things along. The silver lining in all of this is the Fediverse and other platforms are finally popping off. Hopefully that trend gains more momentum and big tech dies before we end up further into a future we don’t want to be in.

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        This but his goal is to find the line and step over it, not toe it. He didn’t like Twitter being a liberal leaning platform that pushed extreme conservatives out so he’s reversing that. The only nuance he’s using is to do it slowly enough that there’s still libs to pwn on his platform over the rather than having them all leave at once. Plus if he can chase them away rather than ban them, he can claim to be more about free speech. But this is all about suppressing opinions he doesn’t like, with an added bonus that he can ban people for not loving him.

    • affiliate@lemmy.world
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      1 year ago

      in the next iteration he’ll make it so you can only block people who don’t have twitter blue

      • kellperdog@lemm.ee
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        1 year ago

        That’s what I was thinking. Either a specific person blocked him that he got upset about or the amount of people that have him blocked upset him. Either way it’s personal and he’s throwing a tantrum like a toddler. Again.

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      1 year ago

      This is so dumb, what is he thinking? What’s the angle?

      I’d guess that he wants to control what people see for one reason or another. I blocked a lot of communities here to make my feed more enjoyable.

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      1 year ago

      Less work needed to maintain the system? He fired most engineers, those remaining can only do so much at one time.

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        What’s there to maintain, the feature is already there and should be relatively simple. I can’t imagine that Twitter backend is so bad that it requires active work on all components.