Elon Musk’s social community X is exploring a brand new function that might enable customers to dam others from direct messaging them, however a manner that’s separate from the account blocking function. Currently, once you block an account, they will’t interact with you thru public posts or direct messages (DMs). With the brand new function, the corporate needs to separate how blocks work with private messaging and public posting.
Yesterday, a couple of app sleuths printed screenshots of blocking an account from DMing. Musk quoted one in every of these posts and mentioned, “DMs are being decoupled from public posting in order that should you all wish to use this platform for messaging however not publish publicly, you are able to do so.”
This phrasing is unusual as a result of even with the present iteration of direct messages, customers can select to not publish and nonetheless interact with different customers via DM. Another chance right here is likely to be a separate app, nevertheless it’s not clear that’s what Musk is saying.
In the previous, he has talked about constructing out DMs in a approach to “Superset Signal,” with options like end-to-end encryption. It’s attainable, then, that separating how public blocks and DM blocks work is an preliminary step in direction of making X a extra sturdy messaging app for individuals who don’t wish to interact with its public social community.
DMs have undergone different upgrades not too long ago, as nicely. Earlier this month, the corporate launched a function that allows you to edit a message for somebody, for example.
As has been the case with quite a lot of options on X these days, the DM blocking function is in improvement, however there aren’t any particulars a few public rollout. X now not replies to request for remark underneath Musk.
