Twitter, now X, to remove blocking feature
bbc.co.uk
bbc.co.uk
[1] https://developer.apple.com/app-store/review/guidelines/#use...
> To prevent abuse, apps with user-generated content or social networking services must include:
> A method for filtering objectionable material from being posted to the app
Filtering is exactly what muting does, which will still be allowed.
Even if that may be true, it seems X has been doing well lately. Admittedly, my timeline has been sharing a lot more interesting items than I had previously received.
I say this as someone who had never used twitter, purely based on what I hear from people in non-twitter spaces, talking about twitter. It is possible I am subject to sampling bias: digital refugees from old twitter are more likely to be on non-twitter social networks and be generally discontent about the new direction of the platform they’ve eschewed.
- No more unjustified blocking of accounts by activist moderators, as far as I can tell.
- The new "following" timeline now shows all and only the (re)tweets from people you follow. No "recommended" or "liked" tweets interspersed like before.
The main thing that got worse:
- For accounts with many followers, it shows not the most relevant (liked etc) replies on top, but the replies of random people who bought Twitter Blue. I mean X Premium.
Overall I would say it's significantly better in my opinion.
Blocking will become a way to filter out responses you don't like, but others who follow you will still see comments and reactions if they also do not already have a user blocked.