Free speech

Will THIS finally be the straw that breaks the X’s back? …Eh, probably not. Considering the other shitty thing’s he’s said and done that haven’t hitherto deterred people from using Twatter (including me, let’s be honest), I can’t see even this making much difference. Indeed, I’m seeing one source claiming that Oolong actually can’t do this, cos if he did then the Apple Store and Google Play would refuse to stock the app; apparently the ability to block users is a key requirement of theirs for making social media apps available. Whatever, though, it’s just another thing making Shitter unappealing… I mean, I suppose the mute button is still there and for some accounts that really is all you need, but other times blocking is absolutely necessary. Wonder how long the mute option will last…

Talking of things making Twitter unappealing: the end of Tweetdeck came about the other day, as threatened a few weeks ago… I discovered this when trying to go there and it redirected me back to Twitter immediately, whereupon the latter just as immediately tried to convice me to pay $135 a year for the privilege of having a functional way of using the service… and then when I angrily clicked that off I found it then opened on the “for you” colum rather than my actual follow list. So yeah, so much for me and Twitter at last, it would appear… there’s still a handful of accounts there I still want to follow, which is why I’m not deleting the account entirely (can’t follow them without one), although one of those is a friend who’s now saying she’ll be on Bluesky (which I still can’t get onto) and Tiktok (which I am, though I rarely use it) more often from now on. So that’s at least one less Twitter account I’ll need to check regularly, I suppose.