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X users will need to make their account private if they want to remain safe from trolls and stalkers.

A notice from X (formerly Twitter) stating: 'Block is changing soon. If your posts are set to public, accounts you have blocked will be able to view them, but they will not be able to engage. For more control over who can see your posts, you can still protect your account.' There is an 'OK' button at the bottom of the notice.

  • X is telling users that blocking will soon be useless and trolls and stalkers will soon be able to see their posts again.
  • Instead of blocking, X advises that users take their account private, the antithesis to what X and its progenitor Twitter was about.
  • This removal of blocking may violate Apple and Google’s policies regarding platforms that host user generated content.
    • tormehEnglish
      411·
      1 month ago

      Mastodon also doesn’t let you prevent people from reading your posts.

      • ZILtoid1991@lemmy.worldEnglish
        19·
        1 month ago

        I can no longer see posts made on a Mastodon instance ran by an ableist piece of shit after I called her an ableist piece of shit, so even Mastodon has this feature.

      • barcaxavi@lemmy.worldEnglish
        12·
        1 month ago

        This is the first time I’m exploring this, but I think you’re wrong.

        On Mastodon you can:

        So post visibility is not something you set per profile, but per post. But you have an effective tool to decide who you let in AND remove on the way.

        • tormehEnglish
          1·
          1 month ago

          I think it theoretically can’t be done. The protocol allows anyone to query for posts, and it has to work that way unless you want to move ActivityPub federation to an invite-only system. On most servers I think browsing while being logged out is sufficient, just like on pre-Musk Twitter.

      • FlashMobOfOne@lemmy.worldEnglish
        11·
        1 month ago

        The block feature works on Mastodon as it does most places. Lemmy seems to be the only weird place where blocking isn’t a fully-featured option.