Get out, now.
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He knows that 99 percent of his users, including many of the people in this thread, will bend over and spread their ass cheeks wide in the name of “just use it for sports results” or “the people I follow aren’t on any other sites” or whatever other laughable excuses those junkies use to justify their continued presence on corpo social media sites.
Yeah, because some of the people I follow on Twitter are not on Mastodon. In fact, only like a few people have both. The content is hard to find, most instances don’t let you search
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If I want to find crack, I go to the place with crack. In this case it’s actually dopamine. Most activities online are dopamine driven. We’re all addicts and it sucks that the drug dealers are giant assholes.
ah sheet here we go again
I killed my Twitter account the day after Muskrat was forced to buy it.
Fun Fact: If he does this, Twitter will get removed from both app stores.
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Fun Fact: If he does this, Twitter will get removed from both app stores.
Fingers crossed!
From your keyboard to God’s feed
I knew the ship was sinking but I stayed around until the name change to X because official and then I bounced. Made it here after Reddit and twitter made more recent bad decisions.
this is me… as soon as I saw the X I jumped ship … fuck where that place is heading
Both app stores require a block feature?
I can’t speak for Apple but Google does. It falls under their user-generated content policy which requires you to “Provides an in-app system for blocking UGC and users”. Google is generally the more lenient of the two when it comes to policies, so I’d be highly surprised if Apple didn’t have it…
Apple too requires mechanisms to block stalkers from what I saw on Mastodon.
Just stop using Twitter. There’s a half-dozen alternatives by now, Jesus Christ.
Take your time and attention somewhere else. Leave.
Twitter has all the content. I want the content. Therefore I’m on Twitter until most of the content moves. In addition, I hate how most of the fediverse social media has no algorithm. The algorithm is how I found most of the content I’m interested in in the first place.
What do you care if people are there or not? I don’t get this mentality of as a non-twitter user urging people to leave the platform.
Think of it as spreading positivity.
As a Twitter user only there to participate in NAFO - I advise anyone else to leave the platform for Mastodon or literally any alternative. For you specifically, there’s an entire community on Pixelfed specifically for art posts. Stop giving space Karen engagement numbers.
I’m on pixelfed too but that place is basically empty compared to twitter. I also have by far the biggest following on twitter and even though I in no way profit from that monetarily it’s still much nicer posting your stuff online when there’s actually an audience.
Artstation, Pixiv, DeviantArt? Or to swap one devil for another, Instagram?
Why? I’m already settled in on twitter and dom’t have any major complaints about my experience there
Like I said, to stop giving space Karen’s site your views and engagement. A site that actively and explicitly caters to self-proclaimed Nazis and distributors of CSAM. Directly or indirectly, you are supporting and condoning their behavior by actively engaging with it.
Because helping others out from under the influence of things that are making them stupid is good for the world in general.
Cool, next they should remove the “log in” feature.
They won’t need it soon anyway
If I hadn’t already deactivated my account this would have been a good time to do it. I had like 135,000 accounts on my block list.
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not trying to turn this into a contest but…
got out, over 2 years ago
Both Apple and Google terms of service require apps to have a blocking feature built in. Elmo been spouting off again without actually knowing anything. As of this evening he’s figured out that’s not something he can actually do and deleted his tweet.
On the one hand, lol, on the other, we shouldn’t need permission from either of those companies to do a goddamn thing.
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You don’t. The only thing you need their permission for is to work with them (by putting something in their stores). I feel it’s reasonable to give them that power.
Does it have a nsfw filter?
It’s not gone entirely, you can still block DMs.
It’s not gone at all and unless the app stores change their terms of service, it won’t be.
naw
The stores need apps to be able to block users. Not other users blocking users from their feed
Or he does know this and is intentionally trying to run Twitter down to get out his purchase of ot that was legally enforced after he tried to back out
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Can Musk do that? I would think this goes against Apple and Android app store rules right?
According to another post, yes.
What if this turns out to be a good thing? Apple/Google remove Xitter from their store, Musk gets all whiny about it, uses his billionaire corruption powers to get regulators to finally acknowledge that app store monopolies are bad, Apple/Google are forced to allow third party stores (without anti-competitive barriers, as in Google’s case).
And Elon Musk turns out to be a hero for consumers and the free market!
Not trying to argue, but could you expand on “anti-competitive behavior” a bit? I recently installed the Epic Store on my phone and found it pretty straightforward.
Considering you’re on lemmy, I think it’s safe to assume you’re good with technology. Imagine someone in your life who isn’t good with technology trying to install the Epic Games store (without assistance)
First they have to track down the toggle to allow “unknown sources” (it’s never in the same place on all Android phones, they move it so that it’s hard to find), which presents a scary and vague warning about malware that a non-techie will never understand. Then they have to track down and install the APK, which presents even more scary warnings, then they get pestered by a “Play Protect” dialog which gives google permission to remotely disable the app (and the dialog can’t be permanently dismissed, so everyone will agree eventually)
Think about how you could run a successful app store in that environment. The cost of user acquisition is very high compared to Google. The only way to do it is to strike deals with OEMs to ship with your store, but Google has been caught either threatening or bribing these manufacturers to not accept those deals from competitors. Additionally, Google pays full time engineers to analyze competitors stores to search for vulnerabilities, and then leak them to the press before they get a chance to patch them, just to scare people away.
There’s probably more stuff I’m forgetting. This is all stuff that came out years ago when Epic first launched their store and got into public fights with Apple and Google. There are articles from back then that really go into the details if you’re interested in the topic.
Last I checked, when you try to install from another source it just pops up a message saying this is not currently allowed due to this setting, with a button to take you to the setting. Literally two taps and you are able to install from other sources.
Yeah. I had the experience you described. Not sure if it’s because I have a newer version of Android or stock Android experience.
then they get pestered by a “Play Protect” dialog which gives google permission to remotely disable the app (and the dialog can’t be permanently dismissed, so everyone will agree eventually)
It is possible to disable Play Protect itself though? You’d just get a permanent red warning text on Play Store.
Quite possibly, this timeline has already thrown up some odd things
Sadly, these big apps already have tons of exemptions.
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But it’s ok! Because he’s an oligarch, he gets an exception.
That’s great. People are fools for sticking it out.
Why is anyone still using Twitter at this point?
Exclusively using it for NAFO.
Except for the nuking of 3rd party apps none of these other changes has affected me personally so the answer to why am I still there is the same why I joined to begin with.
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Does that last friend not understand that just because you don’t post personal info doesn’t mean it can’t be easily found by crazy people? Like it’s pretty easy to find peoples info even when they use fake names nowadays
I know a couple of people who still insist on staying there. “It’s where I get the news and the fun memes and shit talk”. I presented a mastodon instance focused on brazilian portuguese, but they just “meh” at it.
My Twitter account exists exclusively for posting links to mastodon.
Probably because he’s sad that people are blocking him.
Nah, he wants to boost ‘engagement’ for his advertisers.
At this point, any advertisers Xitter has left get what they deserve when they spend money on ads there.
This has to be the reason
My guess is people were blocking Blue users-- now they can’t!
So much so that he let them hide it.
He’s the only user I have blocked, because of the bug he caused where every post was from him. I suspect that one incident made him the most blocked person on Twitter.
Get out…months ago.
Got out , weeks ago
Community Notes jumped on that tweet fast:
If the ability to block users was to be removed, X would be in violation of the policies of the App Store as well as the Google Play Store. Potentially, this could lead to X being removed from these platforms.
Elon: DOIT, ANYWAY!
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I wonder how much “EARN MONEY FREE” spam it’d take for them to realize blocking is a very desirable and needed feature for such a big platform.
Musk is walking proof some people SHOULD be canceled!
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They can still do too much damage to society after being cancelled.
Better to just eat the rich.
Let’s keep them in factory farms. And plump them up, mmmmm mmm.
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about time
X is in violation of the App store’s naming guidelines. They still managed to shove it through.
