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The only way to protect yourself from trolls and stalkers on X. (htxt.co.za)

submitted 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago) by Dot@feddit.org to c/technology@lemmy.world

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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.

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[–] barcaxavi@lemmy.world 12 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago) (1 children)

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

On Mastodon you can:

Control who's following you (also block)
Set your post to appear only to your followers (link)

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.

[–] tormeh@discuss.tchncs.de 1 points 4 weeks 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.