Blocked users will be able to see your posts

The times of the “@[insert username] blocked you” web page seem 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 be capable to work together with these accounts however they’ll be capable to see their posts. A supply from X instructed the brand new blocked entry function is being applied 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 wished to disable the block function 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 develop into “deleted as a ‘function’” in addition to saying “It is senseless.”

Final Could, introduced it might 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 applied to present customers with blocked accounts the flexibility to “establish and report any potential dangerous content material that you just beforehand couldn’t view.”