CarbonConscious [he/him]

I mean I guess? Seems like the people you’d want to be blocking in the first place are the exact type of people you’d expect to have a whole clown car full of obnoxious burner accounts in the first place. And FB and IG make more sense because those accounts are (at least theoretically) real id linked - you’re not supposed to be able to just go make more accounts on a whim, and you’re setting the privacy on posts to only show to mutuals. Just seems like the flimsiest protection imaginable.

And yeah obvs bellend does this stuff to help his impressively stupid followers, and it’s definitely dumb, but I’d be a thousand percent surprised if he hasn’t made the engineers over there work insane overtime hours just to hardcore his account with godmode viewing and posting powers. Hell, we saw the code for white(!)-listed hate speech filter bypass for him and his buddies, so they’re clearly not above it.

Just seems like a really surface level thing to worry about that doesn’t really affect any degree of safety or privacy. Still, stupid, yes.

Maybe I’m missing something, but I’ve found it very strange the concern over this change. I mean, it’s only for public posts, which they could see if they just logged out or switched to a burner account anyways? Like, if it let them send a message or comment on posts, or see posts for followers only or something, I’d see the issue, but it doesn’t seem like that aspect of the feature was all that meaningful anyways. Am I wrong?

I mean I assume if it’s a big public priority of it’s probably something terrible, so there must be more to it than how I’m understanding it currently.

Just to clarify, they were uncropping a version that was just the top half of the original picture, so the differences were in the part it “reimagined”, not changing things that were already there (in what it was given).

Still, obviously, and I cannot stress this enough - yikes.