Murdered by Words

I'm confused. Isn't "block" on the fediverse essentially the same as mute on Twitter? Don't get me wrong, I dislike Elon as much as the next sane person does and I do like the idea of block as it's implemented on Twitter vs fediverse, but I also understand why it's not possible on the fediverse. So I'm kind of just asking, isn't it kind of shooting ourselves in the foot to argue against him on this point? He can easily turn around and just say it's the same way as the fediverse. And I feel like it's even worse when we use the fediverse to make these accusations. It makes us look either stupid or hypocritical. I guess there's a small sliver of hope in the argument "you should implement the best block the technology allows" but that seems a lot more nuanced then many people will listen to.

If you are getting harassed, or just annoyed by another user you can still mute them. That takes their posts off your feed entirely.

The feature they are removing is one that was routinely abused. Someone spreads misinformation, or says something dumb, and gets called out on it. They say "source?" And block the user calling them out, and now that person can't respond and be seen by anyone in that thread. The audience thinks they just abandoned the conversation.

Block was there to help liars and the stubbornly misinformed censor other people, it's good that it's gone. It's worth noting that now X/Twitter works the same way Lemmy does. Lemmy never had a block feature the way X used to.