Remember I talked about Bluesky being the next social platform to possibly beat X? I'm sure people are finding out now.
Elon Musk as usual decides to do something outstanding, and I don't know whether he does it for clout? They guy's in a different zone of thinking but end messed with the block button on X and what did he expect, people were not happy at all about it. Who would?
People have a security button for blocking creeps, trolls and all sorts of nuisances on a platform amd them suddenly, that button isn't working well. You can still mute people on X, but muting is not the same as blocking.
Blocking will remove someone you don't like from your space entirely. It's not everyone that we want to see our posts but centralized platforms like X can take away any advantage people have at any given time.
This I believe is the main reason why people are flooding to BlueSky app right now. It's a great competitor to X and at least it has a fully functioning block button.
BlueSky however wasn't ready for this massive growth at a short time. I don't think they developers planned that they'll grow this much so they probably set up a server to host less people than they have now. 100,000 new users joining in 12 hours was too much for the servers to handle.
So people who hated X for what's going on decided to move to another platform only to run into another big issue. The most frustrating thing about using a social media app is when servers are down. It's practically useless ast that point. But I'll still give BlueSky some credit because they're trying really hard to offer something that users clearly want which is online safety.
Now, back to Elon Musk, he claims that blocking people makes no sense. I’ve blocked people on social media lots of times for very good and sensible reasons with the most important one being my safety, sanity and avoiding a scammer from keeping in touch with me. He's going to lose users to Bluesky and hopefully Hive and he kind of asked for it.
I think the most people that'll be offended by Elon's decisions with the block button with be women.
It's usually women that get their DM flooded with guys trying to toast them and some sending nudes. Blocking them is the best option but they can't have that in X. Anyways, X is still the bigger platform compared to BlueSky and if Bluesky can manage the new number of users well enough, I'm sure they can capitalize on this great opportunity.
This Screenshot was from Google Playstore
