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What a stupid thing to get mad about. Blocking someone should (and can only) prevent the blocker from seeing the blocked. It cannot prevent the blocked user from seeing the blocker’s posts because the blocked user can log out or worse create a new account.

But that’s right elon bad so x must be doin hate crime.

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Who said anyone got mad? They simply prefer another service. Also, while anyone can create a burner account, most people don't. I'm guessing a lot of people didn't even know they were blocked, they just stopped seeing the posts.

That's not even what block was doing. This is the muting feature in X, which I personally find more useful. Blocking is about stopping the other user from being able to engage with your posts. I never block somebody without muting them, but it is prob good that they have them as separate features, because you can mute somebody without them being able to know it in this way.

It's a great example of perception being more important than reality in business. Like the "close elevator door" buttons, whether they *do* anything or not is not the point—is not how you sell elevators.

Oh, calm down. Twitter broke a feature, people moved to a Twitter-like thing where the feature still works. There is no need to overthink this particular one.

> or worse create a new account

Doesn't that make any form of blocking useless anyway. Most people don't go through the trouble.

I think you are underestimating stalkers, psychopaths, people with obsessions and others who are unwell mentally.

I think you're overestimated how many blocked users fall into those categories.

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