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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.
  • acosmichippo@lemmy.worldEnglish
    283·
    29 days ago

    Instead of blocking, X advises that users take their account private, the antithesis to what X and its progenitor Twitter was about.

    so basically remove your voice from the public sphere, giving the platform fully to the trolls and bullies.

    This will also majorly affect professionals who must use twitter publicly for their job. Reporters, artists, PR people, etc. - they have all had to block abusive users over the years, so I think this may finally push them away to other platforms.

    • pycorax@lemmy.worldEnglish
      18·
      29 days ago

      Not to mention the change that makes it no longer possible to opt out of being used for AI training. A lot of artists are now jumping ship to blue sky.

    • sunzu2@thebrainbin.org
      115·
      29 days ago

      This will also majorly affect professionals who must use twitter publicly for their job. Reporters, artists, PR people, etc.

      You either gonna regime whore or you ain’t got a job… Telling you when they killed tupac and biggie that was about the beginning of the end and now we here🤡

      Get an OF account ?