Responding to a debate over blocking or muting, Musk revealed “block is going to be deleted as a ‘feature’ except for DMs.His comments drew sharp reaction, with some claiming they would leave the service when it happens “to maintain their sanity”.Musk responded to fears around the changes, saying there is “mayhem over nothing”, and agreed some were wearing blocks as a badge of honour.
“Accounts you have blocked cannot follow you, and you cannot follow an account you have blocked. You will not receive notifications from accounts you block, or accounts that you do not follow who mention you in conversations started by accounts that you block “Blocked accounts do not receive a notification alerting them that their account has been blocked. However, if a blocked account visits the profile of an account that has blocked them, they will see they have been blocked ”.If you have muted an account, it can still follow you and you can still follow it.
“Muting an account does not impact the account’s ability to send you a direct message, and you will no longer receive push or SMS notifications from any muted account”.“I am seeing a lot of users concerned about removing blocks. We can make mutes stronger, like not allow people you mute to reply or quote you. We can also transfer you block list to mute list”.“Anyone with any intent can find out what you post by simply creating another account or logging out”.