• alienanimals@lemmy.world
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    1 year ago

    Literally every single day we have idiots doing Musk’s PR work for free.

    Downvote Musk spam. The billionaire doesn’t need your help making sure his businesses stay in the 24 hour news cycle.

  • Anti-Face Weapon@lemmy.world
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    1 year ago

    This is so dumb, what is he thinking? What’s the angle?

    Dumbness aside, Twitter is only usable if you block all of the blue check spammers who add nothing to any discussion.

    Maybe he’s doing it so you can’t block blue checks? But it still doesn’t make a whole lot of sense.

  • Chenzo@lemmy.world
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    1 year ago

    So… Wait.

    This means someone can just @ someone else and destroy their feed with hate or dick pics or whatever?!

  • JoYo@lemmy.ml
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    1 year ago

    well ya. musk paid a lot of money to those blue checks posting CSAM. what’s the point if you can just block the pedos?

  • gravitas_deficiency@sh.itjust.works
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    1 year ago

    Lmao this is going to be incredible to watch unfold. I am assuming Elon himself has blocked an absolute fuckton of accounts that are just out to troll him, so either he’s gonna (rightly) get absolutely inundated by trolls, or he’s gonna make the devs disable it for everyone except him and whoever else he wants to give that feature to.

    • notatoad@lemmy.world
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      1 year ago

      yeah, elon’s not going to see the negative consequences of this personally, because he’ll just use the “ban” button instead of the “block” button.

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        1 year ago

        I’m betting I can reverse engineer how to create spam accounts in a mostly automated fashion faster than he can ban accounts. And I bet a lot of other people can do the same.

        I feel very confident saying that he’s not gonna win this one.