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“Most blocked person on Twitter thinks blocking people is bad”
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He’ll just ban the account instead, now. Maybe even say that it would be a block, but “that makes no sense”.
#Everyone must listen to me!
Literally every single day we have idiots doing Musk’s PR work for free.
Downvote Musk spam. The billionaire doesn’t need your help making sure his businesses stay in the 24 hour news cycle.
You think being inevitably forced to see every bit of harassment and spam is going to make that platform more popular and financially viable? Nah, if anything this is free advertising for Mastodon.
How does mastodon work compared to twitter? I keep hearing about it but I’m still trying to figure out lemmy.
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Firefish is another fediverse microblogging platform and it has search and quote tweets, but you can’t follow hashtags in your regular timeline (you can set up a separate timeline called an antenna that regularly pulls in posts according to a list of words or hashtags you specify). It also has a tweet deck style layout you can setup and you can easily follow and be followed by mastodon users from a firefish account.
There are other alternatives as well, but this is the one I am most familiar with.
In the same way lemmy is like many reddits communicating with eachother; mastodon is comparable to many twitters that can share users and posts with eachother
It’s very similar to Twitter, I’d say even more than Lemmy is to Reddit. Mastodon federated like Lemmy but in practice you can follow anyone from any instance. You just need to follow people using @username@instance.tld rather than just @username
Mastodon “block” is one-way, Twitter is two-way (it blocks the other person seeing your posts if they’re logged in).
Yeah, but every time these stories blow up, Mastodon, Threads, and BlueSky gets another user base boost. I’m ok with that. These stories keep making the alternative communities more and more viable.
I agree, he seems unwell and the attention is continuing the negative spiral. Unfortunately, I don’t think we can control what people are interested in. This is a total spectacle and media circus
“it makes no sense” literally every social media site in existence has the block feature, and the reason is to help people prevent harassment. Elon is like a fucking toddler, it’s obvious he just wants to get rid of blocking because he’s pissy about being blocked by other people.
What in the actual fuck does he think is going to happen
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Probably gets hourly updates on followers, blockers, views etc.
He’s going to be able to harass everyone that had blocked him.
I bet he will still be able to block users without them knowing too
When you can pay to win, to always have the last word… He’ll let them know.
Next, deleting your account gets axed. Feature makes no sense.
Immediately causing a shit storm from at least the EU, the UK, and California.
That would be a “Getting nuked from orbit by EU” speedrun.
He wants shitbag, astroturf, conservative, fascist “personalities” to be able to respond to and every prominent non-fascist post where they can be promoted to the top of the replies.
As a bonus, it will also help the astroturfing oil companies better kill environmental efforts.
Maybe he wants to get rid off the somewhat smart people on Twitter so the rest can be easily radicalized with the intend that they vote against their interest and for the interests of rich people?
I’d say it’s either that or he wants greater reach to feed his narcism.
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The block “feature” is a required tool for being listed on the Google and Apple stores, among others.
Removing it will get Twitter delisted from them as well.
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“Background playback” is behind the premium paywall; NOBODY gets YouTube PIP support on iOS; such a shame.
I repeat, even if you pay for premium you simply can’t do PIP using the official app. You can however use a browser and use PIP that way I think (there used to be some weird workaround but I’m not sure if it still exists).
Edit: I was (happily) wrong! I see now, they added it halfway though 2022 and I needed to go into settings and explicitly enable it. I’m a happy camper now! Thanks for the correction
Premium absolutely does give you PIP on iOS. I took this screenshot just now 😊
I see now, they added it halfway though 2022 and I needed to go into settings and explicitly enable it. I’m a happy camper now!
Thank you for the correction.
Fascinating… because I’ve been trying to get this to work for like years… literal years. I’m very happy to be wrong about this.
HOW THE FUCK DO YOU DO THAT?
If you don’t want to pay for premium, I recommend (and use) uYou+ as a sideloaded app. It has PiP capabilities w/o needing premium, along with a built-in video downloader, sponsorblock, and adblock.
Assuming it works the same way as on android you just start playing a video then switch out of the YouTube app without stopping playback. In fact I just read the Google help page “Using picture-in-picture on your mobile device” and it says exactly that for any mobile device and only goes into iPhone Vs android specific details when it comes to ensuring you’ve not turned off any default on settings that are required for it to work.
I don’t even have premium? I’m on iOS, I can’t keep up with what’s being criticized as real or not.
Sounds like Apple may have forced their hand behind the scenes.
https://9to5google.com/2022/07/11/youtube-pip-iphone-ipad/
My initial experience is that it was missing, then tested, then removed again.
Since you don’t have premium and can still use the feature on iOS, that means they were forced to make it available in general to iOS users. It was off by default for me though, so maybe they made it work but just didn’t turn it on by default?
Someone else above was saying that Apple has rules about this, and another poster was saying that on Android you need premium for PIP. So maybe iOS did without it for years and then they were forced to add it for all iOS users regardless of the premium sub.
I will say it doesn’t work predictable with all my apps brought back into view. WefWef is one of the few where it does it every time.
Seems that you don’t even need Premium!
Anyone else realize he uses the music from Dustforce? It’s very nostalgic because I played it a lot in college.
I don’t have premium and I get PiP on everything but music.
Even then, sometimes live shows will work or lesser known musicians.
You don’t even get PiP on Android without premium.
There’s a Firefox addon and 50 different apps doing that.
Thought people were talking about the native app not watching via the browser.
But, yes, Firefox Mobile Android master race. Can confirm it’s so superior!
I still find the Firefox performance on Android to be a bit lackluster. Still use it for ideological reasons. They are making strides though.
Yes you do. S20 Ultra, No Premium, I can PiP.
Not on googles phones, pixels have a single good feature, call screening, if that wasn’t so necessary for my mental health these days i’d go back to samsung in a heartbeat.
You can still play youtube through a browser like firefox and get working pip without paying for premium but if you want to use the official app its locked behind a paywall.
Pixels also have the live captioning built into its sound ecosystem. Not sure if it got translated to other brand images though.
Just stop using Twitter. It’s easy.
I feel sympathy for the people who are required to use it for work. Most users could quit it and replace it with Mastodon, though.
I tried deleting my twitter just now.
The website is abysmally slow. I genuinely think they are throttling their deactivate account page to try stop users from leaving en masse.
That or else the site is not functioning correctly after Musk’s optimizations’
Honestly, this is a pretty clear case where federation should win out. I answered someone above, but governments using a private service like twitter for actual public announcements imo is broken. I hope that Mastodon and federated services take off and turn into a turnkey style service somewhere. Like, setting up your own Mastodon (or Lemmy!) instance I hope turns into something just about as easy as setting up an email account.
With Twitter’s dwindling user base and each, people should just jump ship and migrate to mastodon. It’s honestly what Twitter used to be and better than everything Twitter is now nor what musk has turned Twitter into.
What’s Twitter?
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I liked that song.
I’ve legit never understood it’s appeal. Like what even is the purpose of it?
I wasn’t a heavy poster on Twitter, but I was a heavy user. Unlike the Lemmy/Reddit model, it’s much more real time. So when I wanted to see how things were going with a piece of news of any sort, basically, twitter was better at that.
Its also much more person centered - you curate specifically a list of who you want to follow rather than just topics, so there could often be crossover. Usually for me, this meant I’d listen to some podcast or something for a while, figure out I like the host and their personality or often just taste, and then follow them. The added benefit being that most people I’d follow on twitter weren’t so big that if you tweet at them and you’re not an asshole, you’ll get a response.
you could also say, just block it
It would be a godsend if there was a way to block certain results from search engines. I do not want to have want to have any more Twitter links or reddit links propagating my results. I don’t even care if I miss out on some vital piece of information to my query. I just don’t want those sites in my search results.
You can. I’m not by my desktop but I’m sure I use ublacklist in Firefox.
Have you heard of a DNS sinkhole?
I mean it’s literally in the terms and conditions of both the App Store and Play Store for social media to have a block button lol
Elon complaining about some conspirancy on why their app got taken down for not complying.
This is incredibly consistent with the “free speech” crowd thinking free speech entitles you to an audience.
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No he’s not.
He’s a right wing grifter and always has been. And like many on the right, he views harassment as a form of “free speech” which should be acceptable.
He’s not tanking the site on purpose. He’s tanking it because his bullshit ideology naturally results in creating a hostile environment that people don’t want to be a part of.
im pretty sure he’s just reacting to the chrome extension
Generous of you to assume it’s not a reaction to ShinigamiEyes
I don’t think so, largely because of how big his ego is. I don’t think he’d willingly become a laughingstock.
Lemmy mods removed talking about piracy. It’s not that weird.
LW admins removed a community focused on piracy because they were afraid of getting sued. Even if they’d win ultimately, legal representation is expensive. If you want to see it here though, I’m sure you could work out a binding contract of some kind where you agree to take on all expenses and legal fees for any piracy related litigation.
The block feature is not there out of the goodness of their CEO’s heart.
It is there to limit liability from harassment. After all, why police harassment laws at your expense. When you can get the end user to enforce it for you.
It’s just Dumb evil.
It’s also a feature explicitly required by both the Apple and Google app stores for apps that have user generated content.
https://developer.apple.com/app-store/review/guidelines/
1.2 User-Generated Content
Apps with user-generated content present particular challenges, ranging from intellectual property infringement to anonymous bullying. To prevent abuse, apps with user-generated content or social networking services must include:
…- The ability to block abusive users from the service
https://support.google.com/googleplay/android-developer/answer/9876937?hl=en
User Generated Content
User-generated content (UGC) is content that users contribute to an app, and which is visible to or accessible by at least a subset of the app’s users.
Apps that contain or feature UGC, including apps which are specialized browsers or clients to direct users to a UGC platform, must implement robust, effective, and ongoing UGC moderation that:
…- Provides an in-app system for blocking UGC and users;
Every day he further proves that he has no idea what he’s doing. He’s 100% going to reverse this decision when he find out all of the things he should have know before saying anything.
Lmao he’s gonna get himself booted from BOTH app stores 😂
I can see him choosing to leave the app stores like epic did just to dodge the 30% cut. And of course he will put on a bunch of theatre about “free speech” if they do unlist Twitter.
But he charges $8 a month for free speech.
Is this real? That’s hilarious.
It’s chaotic good, because by destroying his platform, he is making the fedi grow. Surely there has to be a point where people will leave, right?
Did people stop using centralised services after all the data breaches and privacy scandals?
Not when there are no decentralized services to turn to.
This is so dumb, what is he thinking? What’s the angle?
Dumbness aside, Twitter is only usable if you block all of the blue check spammers who add nothing to any discussion.
Maybe he’s doing it so you can’t block blue checks? But it still doesn’t make a whole lot of sense.
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This is pretty wise, I think. I do believe you have figured out the reason, or at least part of the reason. Driving up rage engagement!
People can’t block him anymore, no more hiding from his opinions
That’s what I was thinking. Either a specific person blocked him that he got upset about or the amount of people that have him blocked upset him. Either way it’s personal and he’s throwing a tantrum like a toddler. Again.
This is so dumb, what is he thinking? What’s the angle?
I’d guess that he wants to control what people see for one reason or another. I blocked a lot of communities here to make my feed more enjoyable.
Less work needed to maintain the system? He fired most engineers, those remaining can only do so much at one time.
What’s there to maintain, the feature is already there and should be relatively simple. I can’t imagine that Twitter backend is so bad that it requires active work on all components.
Lmao this is going to be incredible to watch unfold. I am assuming Elon himself has blocked an absolute fuckton of accounts that are just out to troll him, so either he’s gonna (rightly) get absolutely inundated by trolls, or he’s gonna make the devs disable it for everyone except him and whoever else he wants to give that feature to.
yeah, elon’s not going to see the negative consequences of this personally, because he’ll just use the “ban” button instead of the “block” button.
I’m betting I can reverse engineer how to create spam accounts in a mostly automated fashion faster than he can ban accounts. And I bet a lot of other people can do the same.
I feel very confident saying that he’s not gonna win this one.
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That is exactly what he wants Twitter to be.
Twitter is about to become downright dangerous for marginalized populations (LGBTQ+, autistic, sex workers…)
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It always was. Some just thought it was worth it to brave the abuse to get the message out.
Will I be safe if I’m two of those things? Like if I’m a cis-het autistic sex-worker, will it be a double negative and cancel out?
bro wtf are u on
Lay off the crack man
I caught that it was a silly joke and got a little kick out of it. I’m not sure why other people reacted the way they did. Maybe they thought you were mocking or making fun? I dunno.
That’s what people have been saying about every step of the musk acquisition process and yet still people use Twitter. Thinking back to the Facebook privacy controversy years back, everybody still uses Facebook. There can be an infinite amount of red flags and warnings, but these websites are such a huge part of some people’s lives that none of it matters to them, unfortunately.
I don’t know a single person under 20 that uses Facebook. It’s either paid groups or old people.
Facebook has basically become irrelevant for any discourse outside of “the olds are being radicalized by it”
That’s good. Let it die, shut it down.
Yup. X makes no sense. Please delete it.
I resentfully hung on to it after the take over but soon as a the icon changed from the bird on my phone I just couldn’t and uninstalled it.
Thankfully I left it much earlier.
I’m rather enjoying watching it go to shit, though
I really don’t understand who uses it at this point
It’s quite popular here.
