Lemmy.one
  • Communities
  • Create Post
  • heart
    Support Lemmy
  • search
    Search
  • Login
  • Sign Up
dirtmayor@beehaw.org to Technology@beehaw.orgEnglish · 2 years ago

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

www.techdirt.com

external-link
message-square
372
fedilink
  • cross-posted to:
  • nottheonion@lemmy.world
  • news@beehaw.org
  • joeroganexperience@lemmy.world
  • tech@pawb.social
  • tech@lemmy.fmhy.ml
  • nottheonion@lemmy.ml
  • tech@pawb.social
835
external-link

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

www.techdirt.com

dirtmayor@beehaw.org to Technology@beehaw.orgEnglish · 2 years ago
message-square
372
fedilink
  • cross-posted to:
  • nottheonion@lemmy.world
  • news@beehaw.org
  • joeroganexperience@lemmy.world
  • tech@pawb.social
  • tech@lemmy.fmhy.ml
  • nottheonion@lemmy.ml
  • tech@pawb.social
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…
  • LonelyNematocyst@lemmy.world
    link
    fedilink
    English
    arrow-up
    8
    ·
    edit-2
    2 years ago

    3rd-party Twitter clients are going to have quite a spike in popularity then, just need to implement clientside blocking.

    • Tekhne@sh.itjust.works
      link
      fedilink
      English
      arrow-up
      13
      ·
      2 years ago

      Twitter is killing those, too: https://www.theverge.com/2023/1/22/23564460/twitter-third-party-apps-history-contributions

      • joshuaacasey@lemmy.world
        link
        fedilink
        English
        arrow-up
        4
        ·
        edit-2
        2 years ago

        deleted by creator

      • Mr_Smash@sopuli.xyz
        link
        fedilink
        English
        arrow-up
        1
        ·
        2 years ago

        Looks like Twitter is following in Reddit’s foot steps, or maybe the other way around?

        • offthecrossbar@beehaw.org
          link
          fedilink
          English
          arrow-up
          2
          ·
          2 years ago

          Yeah it’s the other way around. Twitter straight up neutered api access for 3rd party apps late last year. It’s a race to the bottom here.

      • gressen@lemmy.world
        link
        fedilink
        English
        arrow-up
        1
        ·
        2 years ago

        Of course it is…

Technology@beehaw.org

technology@beehaw.org

Subscribe from Remote Instance

Create a post
You are not logged in. However you can subscribe from another Fediverse account, for example Lemmy or Mastodon. To do this, paste the following into the search field of your instance: !technology@beehaw.org

A nice place to discuss rumors, happenings, innovations, and challenges in the technology sphere. We also welcome discussions on the intersections of technology and society. If it’s technological news or discussion of technology, it probably belongs here.

Remember the overriding ethos on Beehaw: Be(e) Nice. Each user you encounter here is a person, and should be treated with kindness (even if they’re wrong, or use a Linux distro you don’t like). Personal attacks will not be tolerated.

Subcommunities on Beehaw:

  • Free and Open Source Software
  • Programming
  • Operating Systems

This community’s icon was made by Aaron Schneider, under the CC-BY-NC-SA 4.0 license.

Visibility: Public
globe

This community can be federated to other instances and be posted/commented in by their users.

  • 149 users / day
  • 935 users / week
  • 2.5K users / month
  • 7.44K users / 6 months
  • 1.44K local subscribers
  • 40.2K subscribers
  • 4.61K Posts
  • 91.2K Comments
  • Modlog
  • mods:
  • alyaza [they/she]@beehaw.org
  • TheRtRevKaiser@beehaw.org
  • gyrfalcon@beehaw.org
  • rs5th@beehaw.org
  • coldredlight@beehaw.org
  • Leigh@beehaw.org
  • TheRtRevKaiser@kbin.social
  • Chris Remington@beehaw.org
  • BE: 0.19.7
  • Modlog
  • Legal
  • Instances
  • Docs
  • Code
  • join-lemmy.org