The only way to protect yourself from trolls and stalkers on X.
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- X is telling users that blocking will soon be useless and trolls and stalkers will soon be able to see their posts again.
- Instead of blocking, X advises that users take their account private, the antithesis to what X and its progenitor Twitter was about.
- This removal of blocking may violate Apple and Google’s policies regarding platforms that host user generated content.
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So even after this update, the block feature on Twitter is still more effective than it is on Lemmy, yet nobody seems to be complaining about that.
How so?
Blocking on Lemmy does nothing else but hide that user's posts and messages from you
What else do you want it to do?
Hide you from the view of anyone you block. Essentially, when you block someone, they should automatically be forced to block you as well.
Block on Lemmy, and now Twitter, works like it used to on Reddit few years back, and the main criticism and massive issue with is that because it's just a mute/hide, you can't see what they post and they can keep commenting on your posts with whatever they want. It was huge issue on Reddit where assholes kept following users and commenting slander and falsehoods to every single post or comment they made.
Everyone else sees all of those comments as the first reply, but you are blissfully ignorant of them.
Me? Nothing. That's all I need it for.
I’m confused, what should it do instead?
Hide the other user from seeing your posts as well is what they’re going for I think
Oohhh, ok. That would be good.
Is...that not what's supposed to happen?
I don't have any other socials so I'm not too up on what the standards are.
Technically, it’s 'mute,' not 'block.' In most cases, blocking not only prevents you from seeing their content but also them from seeing yours.
What Twitter is being criticized for here is changing blocking to work similarly to how it does on Lemmy, with the exception that you still couldn’t engage with content from users who have blocked you, whereas on Lemmy, you can.
It’s being argued that 'weakening' the block feature in this way makes stalking and harassment easier.
Ah, so it's a mutual block but initiated from one side.
Thanks.