So that's why the block feature changed

I'm pretty sure OP knows this, but some of the replies? Wow.

The Chaser is a parody news site, just to be clear. It's a really funny one, and just like good parody anywhere it strikes close to home. But it's not actual reportage (more's the pity).

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God it would be so fucking nice if "vote with your wallet" wasn't literally impossible because so many fucking people are just apathetic and won't leave...

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"Vote with your wallet" also means people with bigger wallets get bigger votes.

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I vote with my wallet by not buying <thing>

Billionaires vote with their wallet by buying politicians and lawmakers.

It's a bit uneven.

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I mean, the issue with vote with your wallet is that all of the people's wallets combined are worth about 0 total votes compared to his and his friend's wallets.

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- His what now?
  
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- All of the people are the only thing that matter. The only reason anything is successful is because people use it en mass. If they all stopped, it would no longer be successful.
  
  Granted, that's much easier said than done, but the fact remains.
  
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That place only makes money from advertisers. It has lost something like 80% of them since he bought it. This is happening despite Twitter's actual users still mostly hanging around.

The advertisers are voting with their wallets; your wallet actually doesn't apply here. Apathy of the users doesn't apply here either. Musk continues to run the site the way he wants because, fuck it, who cares, he's still richer than god. None of this matters to him.

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- His behaviour indicates that it clearly does matter to him.
  
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Exactly, except it’s true of all voting, since if just 80% of people voted, the Democratic Party would actually be left wing and have a supermajority in every branch of the government.

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It would be nice if other people joined because of the network effect, but ultimately your decision is about you and what you want. I never used Twitter (the format is terrible for the sort of thing I like to read) but there's an industry I'm morally opposed to and I refuse to support it despite the fact that this makes my life harder while that industry doesn't even notice losing one customer. They do still lose the money I would have spent, and that's a non-zero loss even if they aren't aware of it.

Maybe one day my contribution will be part of a network effect, but even without that I feel like I'm doing the right thing and that's enough for me.

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people are so easily controlled by FOMO it's pathetic

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I imagine the solution, for his child at least, would be something like moving to a different platform and if the deadbeat follows, block him. Also, why would he need to change the block system to see her posts? As far as I'm aware, unless posts are made private, anyone can go to your account by creating another account if you've blocked them.

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Yeah, but that requires him to go through effort to make a new account.

It's easier for him to tell someone else to strip features and make the platform worse than it already is

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- Isn't it already commonly believed he uses multiple accounts?
  
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Imagine being the world's richest deadbeat father.

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The best possible outcome here is that it drives more people off the platform. Frankly, I’m annoyed that so many people still use twitter. I’m in favor of anything that makes it less user-friendly.

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I've heard bluesky servers are having issues because of this. Cool people are leaving, but kinda sad the platform they are trying to move to isn't prepared for that and it doesn't seem mastodon was getting a similar influx last I checked

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So I have a really really dumb question:

As the owner of Twitter, who probably has access to the database directly, couldn't he just get a database dump of his kids tweets?

Or have a developer, oh I'm sorry, chatGPT develop an app just for him to be able to view all tweets?

This seems like firing a nuke for something akin to a knife wound.

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He wouldn't even need to do that. He could literally just make a third account (assuming his daughter is blocking the one where Elon pretends to be an actual child) and see all the posts he wants. This is truly Elon solving a problem only Elon has, by nuking a feature tons of folks use.

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You can just make a new account... it's not like blocking someone stopped them from ever viewing your tweets again. Blocking was always just to stop viewing their tweets.

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He probably could. But he’ll spin this into ‘make speech free again’(tm) or some hulkshit

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“Why does Dad pretend he’s a cowboy but wear his hat backwards?”

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As much as I can believe he would totally do this, he would not admit to this.

But it comes from a satire site.

https://chaser.com.au/business/elon-musk-removes-blocking-feature-so-he-can-finally-see-what-his-kids-post/

Update: So someone else mentioned this, and looks like changes are coming but the satire part was why Elon was doing it.

https://www.avclub.com/twitter-x-block-feature-update-elon-musk

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Is the mute feature still there? Because if it isn’t we have a mass exodus on our hand. So many bad faith trolls on twitter since you can earn from engagement.

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Pic is him looking at an image of one of his kids and wondering why they hate him.

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That would require him to have feelings

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