hedge@beehaw.org to Technology@beehaw.orgEnglish · 13 days agoBlueSky has been knocked offline by an exodus from Twitterwww.independent.co.ukexternal-linkmessage-square62fedilinkarrow-up1227arrow-down10
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minus-squareTachyonTele@lemm.eelinkfedilinkarrow-up17·edit-213 days agoWell, I don’t use Twitter. So that’s all you. But blocking accounts have been a thing for decades. It’s not a new concept.
minus-squarembirth@lemmy.mllinkfedilinkarrow-up3·13 days agoIn closed systems like messengers, where you don’t see any content unless logged in, yes. There, it works brilliantly. But on Twitter, this is like cutting out something from a newspaper when there’s a news stand right next door.
minus-squareVodulas [they/them]@beehaw.orglinkfedilinkarrow-up5·13 days agoTwitter has DMs, plus it helps by not allowing that person to reply unless they create a new account.
minus-squareTachyonTele@lemm.eelinkfedilinkarrow-up3·13 days agoYou do realize it’s the same thing here, right?
minus-squarembirth@lemmy.mllinkfedilinkarrow-up0·13 days agoYep, that’s why I don’t get all this panicking about the Twitter change…
minus-squareTachyonTele@lemm.eelinkfedilinkarrow-up2·edit-213 days agoI don’t think anyone is panicking. Most people point and laugh at Twitter.
Well, I don’t use Twitter. So that’s all you.
But blocking accounts have been a thing for decades. It’s not a new concept.
In closed systems like messengers, where you don’t see any content unless logged in, yes. There, it works brilliantly. But on Twitter, this is like cutting out something from a newspaper when there’s a news stand right next door.
Twitter has DMs, plus it helps by not allowing that person to reply unless they create a new account.
You do realize it’s the same thing here, right?
Yep, that’s why I don’t get all this panicking about the Twitter change…
I don’t think anyone is panicking.
Most people point and laugh at Twitter.