Blocked customers will have the ability to see your posts

The times of the “@[insert username] blocked you” web page look like over. X proprietor Elon Musk introduced a brand new change to permitting blocked customers to see posts of the accounts that blocked them.

Blocked accounts nonetheless gained’t have the ability to work together with these accounts however they’ll have the ability to see their posts. A supply from X instructed the brand new blocked entry characteristic 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 characteristic on X for awhile now. Greater than a 12 months in the past, he first expressed (or technically, Twitter) apart from direct messages. He wrote that blocking would turn into “deleted as a ‘characteristic’” in addition to saying “It is mindless.”

Final Might, 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 can 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.”