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X users will need to make their account private if they want to remain safe from trolls and stalkers.

A notice from X (formerly Twitter) stating: 'Block is changing soon. If your posts are set to public, accounts you have blocked will be able to view them, but they will not be able to engage. For more control over who can see your posts, you can still protect your account.' There is an 'OK' button at the bottom of the notice.

  • X is telling users that blocking will soon be useless and trolls and stalkers will soon be able to see their posts again.
  • Instead of blocking, X advises that users take their account private, the antithesis to what X and its progenitor Twitter was about.
  • This removal of blocking may violate Apple and Google’s policies regarding platforms that host user generated content.
    • ContrarianTrail@lemm.eeEnglish
      103·
      14 days ago

      Blocking on Lemmy does nothing else but hide that user’s posts and messages from you

        • JohnEdwa@sopuli.xyzEnglish
          51·
          14 days ago

          Hide you from the view of anyone you block. Essentially, when you block someone, they should automatically be forced to block you as well.

          Block on Lemmy, and now Twitter, works like it used to on Reddit few years back, and the main criticism and massive issue with is that because it’s just a mute/hide, you can’t see what they post and they can keep commenting on your posts with whatever they want. It was huge issue on Reddit where assholes kept following users and commenting slander and falsehoods to every single post or comment they made.
          Everyone else sees all of those comments as the first reply, but you are blissfully ignorant of them.

      • Senal@programming.devEnglish
        3·
        14 days ago

        Is…that not what’s supposed to happen?

        I don’t have any other socials so I’m not too up on what the standards are.

        • ContrarianTrail@lemm.eeEnglish
          7·
          14 days ago

          Technically, it’s ‘mute,’ not ‘block.’ In most cases, blocking not only prevents you from seeing their content but also them from seeing yours.

          What Twitter is being criticized for here is changing blocking to work similarly to how it does on Lemmy, with the exception that you still couldn’t engage with content from users who have blocked you, whereas on Lemmy, you can.

          It’s being argued that ‘weakening’ the block feature in this way makes stalking and harassment easier.