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BlueSky has been knocked offline by an exodus from Twitter

www.independent.co.uk BlueSky has been knocked offline by an exodus from Twitter

Outage comes after changes to block button that users have argued will enable ‘creeps’

🦋 Bluesky Social @lemmy.ml BlueSky has been knocked offline by an exodus from Twitter

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Well it's "allegedly" decentralized, which should solve this by design...

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Anyone who still uses Twitter either condones what Musk has done and is doing, or is completely oblivious.

I long for the day it dies the death it deserves and Musk is left holding the bag having to pay all the debt. If only he’d be forced to do that, but like all rich assholes, he’ll get out of it somehow.

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changing how its “block” button works. That option previously allowed users to hide their profile from certain accounts – but will no longer do so.

So I guess all that stuff they did to lock down the ability to see things on Xitter without an account was strictly for evil then

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“One of the biggest functions of blocking is giving women the ability to stop weird men from constantly making them uncomfortable and scared,” one user wrote. “So of course Elon had to change that.”

Given how he constantly tries to insert himself and his opinions into everything he sees, it's clear he has no idea about how consent works, nor why people don't want him in their lives.

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- Consent doesn't matter to rich people. It's not exclusive to Musk.
  
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- I honestly don't think it's a matter of him not understanding how consent works and more of a matter that he sees consent as something that gets in his way.
  
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  Or maybe just refuses to fathom that other people could not want to talk to him. If he has a psych file I'm sure it's darkly fascinating.
  
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- Rather people have no idea how blocking on 𝕏 worked/works. You were ALWAYS able to see tweets from people that blocked you by simply logging out or using an alt account.
  
  I don’t understand all this fuss about this simple change. He only removes a useless feature that was never more than a minor inconvenience for those that got blocked.
  
  If you don’t want people to see your tweets, lock your profile. This worked before and this still works just fine.
  
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  You were ALWAYS able to see tweets from people that blocked you by simply logging out or using an alt account.
  
  Well, yeah. It's a different account. That's how accounts work. Do you think one account blocking someone should result in every account blocking them too?
  
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  simply logging out or using an alt account
  
  It is increasingly difficult to use X without an account. Not sure what the signup process is like nowadays. IIRC it used to require phone number verification in the Twitter days, but perhaps Musk relaxed the requirements in order to better pad the usage stats with spambots?
  
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  or, even better: delete twitter altogether
  
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“One of the biggest functions of blocking is giving women the ability to stop weird men from constantly making them uncomfortable and scared,” one user wrote. “So of course Elon had to change that.”

They buried the lede a bit there, but that's pretty much it.

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Hope some of them go to Mastadon.

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- Does Mastodon have the blocking features that Bluesky has (like lists, blocks stopping quote reply chains, etc)?
  
  Other than on Blahaj, I’ve never found a place more chill to be queer online once you apply a couple of well maintained block lists.
  
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  If you need the feature set of Bluesky and can’t use Mastodon, please also follow https://fed.brid.gy/ if you can. This will allow Mastodon users to follow you from the Fediverse.
  
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  As far as I'm aware, Mastodon blocks work the same way they'll work on Twitter now - The person you blocked can see your posts, but can't interact with you
  
  Edit: Actually, I was wrong the person you blocked can't see your posts on Mastodon
  
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- If they don’t, please also follow https://fed.brid.gy/ so your BlueSky account is federated to Mastodon. If you move to Threads, please turn on Fediverse integration.
  
  It’s so frustrating, between Mastodon, Bluesky and Threads almost every person I used to follow on Twitter exists somewhere else. But only about half of them are accessible in any one platform.
  
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- I know Imani Gandy is now posting on mastodon. She had an enormous following on Twitter.
  
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  Yeah it really actually only takes a couple of big users moving to Mastodon to cause a domino effect of a mass migration. I hope more people with tons of followers start moving over.
  
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- IOCX has a noticeable increase in new user signups since a day or two back.
  
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who knew that removing the block feature and "Twitter's new ToS says all disputes will be heard in U.S. District Court for the Northern District of Texas located in Tarrant County (Tesla investor Reed O'Connor's court)" were not going to be winners among the remaining userbase

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- Definitely not mr boy "genius" elon.
  
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- @alyaza @hedge Funny side note: This rule with the disputes is not valid for residents of the EU due to their regulations. There an Irish court is responsible.
  
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Anyway.

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NOSTR Y’ALL !!

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- oh yah nostr still exists.
  
  i stopped using it when all of my shitcoin filters did nothing.
  
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  oh it’s getting good
  
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- ActivityPub ye!
  
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- Nazi central.
  
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@hedge

For two hours.

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