Elon Musk said on Friday that users of the site formerly known as Twitter will no longer be able to block unwanted followers from responding to their posts.
A while back he (Musk) posted that individual blocklists are relatively expensive (cpu wise) to run, which is true. This has been getting much worse with the whole blue check debacle. People are blocking those idiots en masse. I’m fairly sure this is just a cost saving measure.
He thinks it will make it impossible for people to not listen to him and his sycophants. What he forgets is that everyone always has the choice to just not use it.
Like, why though?
A while back he (Musk) posted that individual blocklists are relatively expensive (cpu wise) to run, which is true. This has been getting much worse with the whole blue check debacle. People are blocking those idiots en masse. I’m fairly sure this is just a cost saving measure.
This is probably why. If douchebags pay to self identify, you can’t have them blocked by 1/3 of your users or they aren’t getting their value.
Easier to harass people and flood the field with right wing non-facts if that content can’t be blocked.
He thinks it will make it impossible for people to not listen to him and his sycophants. What he forgets is that everyone always has the choice to just not use it.