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Elon Musk Says Twitter Is Going To Get Rid Of The Block Feature, Enabling Greater Harassment
(www.techdirt.com)
What could possibly go wrong?
this post was submitted on 11 Jun 2023
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I think I get were the “server costs” come from. The twitter algorithm they pushed to GitHub FIRST gets a set of like a thousand tweets to show you, then filters them, getting rid of blocked accounts for example. If you use one of the large block lists, you know, to bypass the lack of moderation, there is the “risk” that they neeed to do another request to get enough content to fill your front page of irrelevant stuff you don’t want to see.
Days since Musk fucks-up Twitter further: 0
Not that the number was that high anyway U_U
This is so dumb it must be out of context.
Elon and Trump are fairly unique in that context usually makes it worse.
But is this maybe because "blocking" is a feature that requires too much programming on twitter? I don't see the point in this.