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Elon Musk Says Twitter Is Going To Get Rid Of The Block Feature, Enabling Greater Harassment
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this post was submitted on 11 Jun 2023
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This is major news. I really hated that word.
To be honest, there was years of backlash to the "tweeting" and "googling" but both made it into the lexicon. However it's smart of Mastodon to just move to a normal terminology
A normal terminology also helps when explaining the concept of federating with other platforms, imagine saying: "When you join a pod, you can then send toots that can be seen by people in different magazines, even if they're on different platforms!"
I mixed the terminology of some 3 or 4 federated platforms to give an egregious example, but it helps drive the point. If we have a standard (the ActivePub) we can very well have a standard nomenclature for each feature.