The “Readers added context” feature is the only good thing about Twitter.

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Wouldn’t be surprised if this is just yet another genius move for introducing blocks as a paid feature.

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Can someone ELI5 what is the “Readers added context” feature?

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I haven’t added one myself, but this is my understanding: all Twitter users can opt into the community notes feature but at first you can only rate notes as helpful or unhelpful. Once you’ve rated 5 notes you have the ability to write your own. You can do so on any tweet, but if your note(s) don’t get enough “helpful” ratings, you lose your ability to write them. You have to go back to rating notes - once you’ve rated 5 more you can write again.

When you add a note you chose a reason why you’re adding it, similar to explaining why you’re reporting a comment on lemmy. If you say that the original tweet is misleading you have to say why and provide a source. It only shows on the tweet to everyone if you get enough “helpful” ratings from the people who have opted into the scheme.

Not very EILI5 but you get the jist!

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Thanks, now I understand this better… And yeah this dude is a real jerk.

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I’m kinda having hard time understanding this. Bypassing blocks in Twitter was always so trivial, essentially same as mute. Just open the profile on another account or incognito.

Official twitter app even supports multiple accounts by default.

Only way to actually prevent unwanted people from interacting with you was to make your profile private so you can approve every follower individually.

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Exactly. If someone wants to see your public tweets, they will no matter how blocked they are. It’s a mountain out of a mole hill. When account creation is free and without restriction people will abuse it.

As long as mute exists that’s all that’s needed.

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a big reason to have block is so that you can’t get quote tweeted by a much bigger account. if you block them, they can’t put you on blast. even though they can circumvent the block with a different account, it won’t have as much reach.

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Why are people arguing about whether blocking on Lemmy is better or hypocritical or whatever? I’m pretty sure this post is just about Elon being a hypocrite, and is saying absolutely nothing about Lemmy

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I really don’t know. But I’ve had to give multiple warnings, a temporary ban and a permanent ban already so I really hope we can just stick to enjoying musk being called out and not argue over irrelevant/nonexistent issues.

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I second that.

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