The times of the “@[insert username] blocked you” web page look like over. X proprietor Elon Musk introduced a brand new change to the platform’s blocking function permitting blocked customers to see posts of the accounts that blocked them.
Blocked accounts nonetheless gained’t be capable of work together with these accounts however they’ll be capable of see their posts. A supply from X advised The Verge the brand new blocked entry function is being carried out as a result of customers can already see and work together with accounts which have blocked them by switching to a non-blocked account.
Musk has needed to disable the block function on X for awhile now. Greater than a yr in the past, he first expressed his disdain for blocking on X (or technically, Twitter) aside from direct messages. He wrote that blocking would develop into “deleted as a ‘function’” in addition to saying “It is unnecessary.”
Final Could, X’s Engineering account introduced it will implement the blocked viewer change to the platform with out together with a stable implementation or rollout date. The publish mentioned the change could be carried out to provide customers with blocked accounts the power to “determine and report any potential dangerous content material that you simply beforehand couldn’t view.”
