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It’s quite computationally expensive to hold on to the block feature. He’s out to save money.
That’s one reason.
The other is that he’s seen how many people block him, and being the thin skinned narcissist that he is, he doesn’t like it.
Usernames should be shorter for the same reasons. lol.
At a guess, they should be longer for search to be cheaper.
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Curious about this, what makes it computationally expensive?
Imagine a website where EVERYONE sees the exact same content. You could just calculate that content once, save the result, and give everyone that pre-calculated result. This is called caching (roughly speaking).
Now imagine the other extreme: NOONE sees the same content. That means you have to do your (comparatively) expensive calculations every single time. That requires a lot more compute power, esp. if you want to maintain a decent speed.
Most websites aren’t entirely one or the other, but in general anything customizable will make things just a little less cache-able, and therefore everything a little more compute-intensive. Blocking is one of those customizations.
Computational power has Jack shit to do with his decision. That’s just a cheap talking point meant to justify it in our eyes as if most of us even know what it means.
Stop letting obvious concern trolls manipulate you into accepting absurdities.
Community Notes jumped on that tweet fast:
If the ability to block users was to be removed, X would be in violation of the policies of the App Store as well as the Google Play Store. Potentially, this could lead to X being removed from these platforms.
As I’ve never hatd a Twitter/X account, could someone tell me what a “DM” is in that context?
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I left Twitter. why must I keep hearing about Twitter?
I was never on twitter. Welcome to my world.
We all used to have to hear about it because of politics and celebrities, now we have to hear about it because of Musk antics.
Why do people even use twitter-like platforms? Like what’s so good about following users instead of communities? Like I don’t want to hear about tech from a Linus Sebastian, I want to hear about it from a community of people interested in technology.
That’s why I never even liked twitter nor the fediverse alternative, Mastodon. It doesn’t really make sense to me.
I never understood it either.
But now I’m on kbin and can interact with mastodon I follow a few of them that I see in my magazine. There seem to be a lot of scientists posting stuff like sea ice updates.
Musk: (literally shocks you with electricity for using the site)
Twitter leftists/liberals: My followers are here, fediverse is CoMpLiCaTeD, I need to stay here to reach people, there are no good alts, there is no ethical consumption under capitalism, I’m staying in protest, I can leave whenever I want…
