The link is Elon’s reply to the OP.

  • wild_dog [they/them]@hexbear.net
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    2 months ago

    The current system makes it harder because you have to create a new account. There are people who are either too dumb to realize they can do that or just won’t bother jumping through the extra hoops. Obviously it’s not perfect, but it’s better than doing this.

    And being worried about stalking is extremely counter to posting something publicly.

    Using Twitter on private kinda sucks. It makes the site less fun. All this is doing is making it so the creeps can have more fun on the site while marginalized people being harassed by those creeps have a worse experience on the site. not sure why y’all are defending this but whatever.

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      2 months ago

      The only hoop you have to jump through is using a Nitter instance. And the most dangerous abusers are most likely going to be determined enough to where doing this or creating a new account is not a deterrent.

      False security is worse than no security. If people trust that the block function is reliable at stopping people from seeing your posts, and then those people post things publicly that they wouldn’t share otherwise, that is leaving more people vulnerable than having no way to stop people from seeing your posts.

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        2 months ago

        Most people don’t know what Nitter is. Most people aren’t “the most dangerous users,” they’re lazy, so any extra steps is a deterrent. Keeping the weak deterrent is still a net positive.

        The types of posts i’m talking about here aren’t things like “this is where i live” but innocuous things that transphobes or racists decide to take out of context. I would post all these things publicly but it’s good to be able to make them more private from the freaks who are gonna freak out bc I said trans kids exist and put me in a cringe compilation to encourage others to harass me. Twitter never made it impossible to do that, but Elon’s making it easier.