He's literally doing this to appease fashoids.

Destroying the app you overpaid for to own the libs

the harm is intentional.

This is not going to happen because both the App Store and Google Play Store require a block feature to have your app in their storefront

He has to be destroying Twitter on purpose, there's absolutely no way a person could make this many perfectly idiotic decisions in a row unless it was deliberate.

What I don't know is why you'd buy a social media platform for $44b and deliberately speed-run it into oblivion, but I'm sure the reasons are not good.

Twitter's bread and butter was always that it was a platform that was attractive to celebrities and politicians and have them a direct line of communication to their fans. The celebrity accounts then drew in a large userbase.

If there's one thing famous people doesn't want it is to get an uncensored feed of what people think of them. They want to have the sort of engagements that promotes the kind of personal brand they are building for themselves. If you're a big pop star you don't want to have people posting creepy sex stuff at you, if you're a queer icon you don't want a deluge of homophobia and if you're building a brand as a very serious politician you don't want a feed full of people explaining why your bullshit doesn't add up. The block function is a core feature to keep Twitter's most business-critical users on the platform. Removing it will be idiotic from a business perspective.

Critical support to Elon Musk in his quest to destroy Twitter.

I'm going to go out on a leg here and guess he's going to keep the feature for himself and/or paid bootlickers.

He already appeared in my feed despite being blocked. That's part of the reason I quit, I could see how he was turning the platform into his own personal soapbox.

Considering that wants DAE LE EPIC X to be a universal platform for everything, imagine everything you did or had to do having a potential swarm of stalkers and harassers all around it with no recourse at all.

Engagement numbers must be tanking.

It's suddenly going to be a lot more important that he decimated the support team.

Also RIP to Kamiya-San's account. .

Mastodon take my energy

[Synthetic Robot Voice from WarGames]: "A strange application. The only winning move is to delete it."

Of course the ultimate "look at me look at me" crybully wants everyone in the world to see whatever regurgitated tryhard slime oozes out of his lead-laced brain.