• LEDZeppelin@lemmy.world
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    1 year ago

    Back when I had a Twitter account I had blocked this motherfucker because of his narcissistic shenanigans. Needless to say, I wasn’t on Xitter even for full 24 hours after he bought it. Deleted the account along with all the tweets.

    Fuck this Apartheid Xitler.

  • Borkingheck@lemmy.world
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    Just a wee selection of my block list: bots, thirst traps, bitcoin bro, invest bros, marketing bros, dating stuff and far too much gambling.

    I mean twitter must be down on ad revenue by the amount of gambling sites I block alone. Surely I was just about to sign up and gamble on the big South match between the irresistible Portsmouth v the unmovable object that is Southhampton.

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      1 year ago

      He’ll probably invest his remaining billions in developing a way to thwart adblockers next. It will be as successful as everything else he has done in relation to twitter.

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    The wording is funny, “public safety”. I’m pretty sure all social media is bad for public safety.

  • HikuNoir@lemmy.world
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    1 year ago

    Watch Quo Vardis (1951) the other day. Elon is in it. Played by Peter Ustinov.

  • Maharashtra@lemmy.world
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    Threat to Public Safety

    Dude, you forgot which of two worlds is the real one. Hint: it’s not the Internet.

  • Cam@lemmy.world
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    I like this since it forces people who do not like having their world view shaken up to have their world view shaken up. This will either limit echo chambers on the platform or cause people to leave Twitter. Most likely cause people to leave Twitter which I am all for since it is a big tech spyware platform filled with toxic people.

    Nostr is were it is at! Not mastodon.

    BTW I do not have a Twitter account nor do I use Twitter.

    • fluxion@lemmy.world
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      You obviously don’t use Twitter if you think well-argued/constructive challenges to worldviews are the sorts of things people need the blocking feature for.

      • Cam@lemmy.world
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        For some twitter users use the blocking feature to live in a echo chamber. For some it is to block spam. For some it is to block rude people.

        The con of no blocking feature is not able to block spam.