Holy f*ck.

He's literally doing this to appease fashoids.

I think it's a) because so many people block him and b) to pump metrics with harassment campaign "engagement"
- Another reason is, he's said the block feature "significantly increase server costs", which tbh may actually be true.
Even the entire site is just fash on fash violence...

Destroying the app you overpaid for to own the libs

Bargain priced Lib here. I’d have been owned for way less than $44B.
To be fair, I can't think of any way to improve my life with 44 billion dollars either.

the harm is intentional.

Furthermore at this point, everyone who continues to use and advertise on his platform is complicit in enabling his bullshit.
If there’s a Nazi at the table with 10 other people sitting there talking to him, you've got a table with 11 Nazis.

He has to be destroying Twitter on purpose, there's absolutely no way a person could make this many perfectly idiotic decisions in a row unless it was deliberate.

What I don't know is why you'd buy a social media platform for $44b and deliberately speed-run it into oblivion, but I'm sure the reasons are not good.

he's a failchild that's failed upwards his entire life and is surrounded by yes men. he's remarkably stupid.
- bUT hE a gEniUs
He's really not clever or competent. From what i understand the only reason tesla and space-x can function is that they've developed proceedures for keeping him distracted and steering him away from things he can break, and even that is a constant challenge. With twitter there was no time to learn how to manage him, he just smashed through the wall, shit on the rug, and set the drapes on fire.
- SpaceX has the added constraints of being a NASA contractor. For example, even though Crew Dragon was designed and built by SpaceX, has to strictly follow NASA safety and reliability specifications. NASA has a huge amount of oversight into their operations even though they're technically a private company. Which is as it should be.
- That's what I was wondering, because he's obviously not a smart person but things like SpaceX seem to basically function, and if he ran those the same as Twitter it'd literally be headlines like "SpaceX fires all its rockets directly into the ground for no reason" lol
In my job, my clients are usually executives or VPs. They do dumb shit like this all the time. A lot of these people get to these levels of leadership for reasons that have very little to do with their competence, and they have big egos and don't listen to anyone, even when you put lots of evidence in front of them that their ideas are fucking stupid.
- This right here. Steve Jobs is literally dead because of this. He rode this to the grave. He had a very very treatable form of cancer, but literally believed he could formulate his own cure using fruit juice, until he really started dying and it was too late to cure.
  And he was 100x the CEO musk is. Still an absolute narcissistic and psychopathic monster, and literal crime boss, but y'know,
He tried to get out of buying it as he admitted he was trolling. The guy's an idiot, thick as shit. For the past 40 years of his life he's had people massaging his ego and now it falls apart he's having a tantrum.
Sure this man, gentle and of noble blood, could not be a fool! Elsewise why would the Lord God Almighty bestow upon him the natural right of rulership?
Very simple
Communist posters were becoming too powerful. The website had to be destroyed.

This is not going to happen because both the App Store and Google Play Store require a block feature to have your app in their storefront

It’s a part of elon’s master plan of losing advertisers, access to the app stores, losing users, etc all to….
… listen the man’s a genius, who knows whats going on in there
This is not going to happen because
Coinflip if he does it fast enough and angrily enough to push it live before his underlings can beg him to reconsider

Critical support to Elon Musk in his quest to destroy Twitter.

I’ve jokingly said it before, but you never know, it might be true… Melon is actually a covert op lefty destroying fascist comms channels from within.
- No. He has connections with a rightwing "long-termist" conspiracy group. They're essentially trying to self-eugenic a new generation of "geniuses". https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=B_M64BSzcRY https://www.businessinsider.com/pronatalism-elon-musk-population-tech-2022-11?r=US&IR=T

Twitter's bread and butter was always that it was a platform that was attractive to celebrities and politicians and have them a direct line of communication to their fans. The celebrity accounts then drew in a large userbase.

If there's one thing famous people doesn't want it is to get an uncensored feed of what people think of them. They want to have the sort of engagements that promotes the kind of personal brand they are building for themselves. If you're a big pop star you don't want to have people posting creepy sex stuff at you, if you're a queer icon you don't want a deluge of homophobia and if you're building a brand as a very serious politician you don't want a feed full of people explaining why your bullshit doesn't add up. The block function is a core feature to keep Twitter's most business-critical users on the platform. Removing it will be idiotic from a business perspective.

Time to tell Lockheed Martin exactly what I think, a lot

I'm going to go out on a leg here and guess he's going to keep the feature for himself and/or paid bootlickers.

He already appeared in my feed despite being blocked. That's part of the reason I quit, I could see how he was turning the platform into his own personal soapbox.

I could see how he was turning the platform into his own personal soapbox.
He already has.

Engagement numbers must be tanking.

Over half the app have blocked Elon. I am sure.
- They prevented that as soon as he bought the shit show

Considering that

wants DAE LE EPIC X to be a universal platform for everything, imagine everything you did or had to do having a potential swarm of stalkers and harassers all around it with no recourse at all.

I had an exwork colleague trying to destroy my reputation. I think it was a pretty good reason to block him after the assault. Elon is a removed.

It's suddenly going to be a lot more important that he decimated the support team.

Also RIP to Kamiya-San's account.

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I mean fuck, imagine gamergate but there's not even a block button. Your only recourse as a target would be deactivate or suspend.
- Your only recourse as a target would be deactivate or suspend.
  That's exactly what the
  gate fascists wanted all along: they wanted to swarm anyone they didn't like until they quit or maybe even self-harmed.

Mastodon take my energy

[Synthetic Robot Voice from WarGames]: "A strange application. The only winning move is to delete it."

At some point he will absolutely claim to have destroyed the platform on purpose.

You will watch the cartel beheading videos and you will be happy

Of course the ultimate "look at me look at me" crybully wants everyone in the world to see whatever regurgitated tryhard slime oozes out of his lead-laced brain.

Near future "free speech"...

I mentioned noted scholar Heinrich H. Swastika because he challenges received narratives about the holocaust. Let's discuss this. I'm just asking questions. I won't stop cause Elon's got my back. 1/127

Lots of "can you kindly prove with objective facts and no woke biased sources that a final solution isn't necessary for what ails society? I have doxx and I will send my minions to your house if you don't comply" imminent.

Can we make post titles more relevant ?

On Hexbear?

You're welcome to try to beg people for it but people don't really care that much here, post takes a second to read anyway.

If I remember his earlier comments on this correctly, he's probably referring to blocked users being unable to see your public tweets, and changing it so it only keeps you from seeing the blocked user. I think. It's impossible to predict a mind as great as Elon's though.

🤣 Elon's feed's going to be real crowded. Twitter's been a good place to get reliable COVID info from epidemiologists, virologists, and other assorted real scientists. Eric Topol, from Scripps Translational Medicine, posts there. So does Eric Feigl-Deng. Also, independent journalists post there. I can't afford to subscribe to all their Substacks. I mean, if you can't trust the CDC or MSM, where else is there?

Right wingers: "If you don't like what we have to say, ignore us! Grow a thicker skin!"

Also right wingers: Make it so they can't be ignored

Also right wingers: "STOP POSTING THAT PIC IT IS OUT OF CONTEXT!"

Critical support to

for trying to destroy that foul website

Why are people losing their minds over this? He is just making block work the same way it does on this website and other social media. Should Hexbear make it so if you block a user then it deletes any comments they made replying to your comments? Surely, it should just hide it for you, but leave it for others to see. Moderators should be responsible for banning and deleting comments, not individual users. Maybe there is just something I don't understand.

On hexbear if someone is stalking or harassing you, you can report it to moderators and get it taken care of. On twitter, people can be vile. If you're any kind of minority for example, being able to press a button to prevent some shithead from spamming bigoted crap your direction is kinda nice.
Surely, it should just hide it for you, but leave it for others to see.
I in fact fucking hate this implementation of block, because it may as well not exist in that form. You need to keep them unblocked so you can refute the shit they spew to your comments that you otherwise can't see so it doesn't make other people believe it.
You need to not only hide their content, but remove their ability to respond to your content entirely. That's the point of BLOCK-ing someone. What you are describing is just a mute button.
It sounds to me like he's getting rid of the block feature entirely so you can't even hide users you don't want to see from your feed.
Also I can't think of a single platform where a non-moderator user blocking another user removes their comments for anyone else. At most blocking someone just prevents them from replying to you further.