I'd argue the opposite, if you don’t mind.

The worst part of #blocking on #Twitter was that people would have a conversation with you in a thread and then when they did not like what was said would block you, removing all the context of the conversation, and also of all previous conversations.

That was a tactic loved by #trolls.

So it was clear that blocking should never have applied to existing Tweets.

Furthermore deleting should not have been allowed on Tweets a short time after they were posted or certainly commented on. Once you have engaged in a conversation your posts are no longer yours to remove. This problem was known to people from the earliest social network, the Well, which was destroyed by deleing of posts.

#Nostr gets that right. The longer you wait to delete the less likely it will work.

I am sorry to say, but #𝕏 is clearly a big improvement since Elon took over: longer tweets, markup, identity verification, financial support, all have improved the platform a lot.

The main problem remains the one that bothered me since the beginning was that it is centralised. #nostr is going the right direction.

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Here is the #Wired story from 1997 of how the first computer social network The Well was destroyed by deleting of posts

https://www.wired.com/1997/05/ff-well/

A key passage:

> On July 5, 1992, he logged on and executed a mass scribble over the next three days. The mass scribbling tool had been written a few years earlier by Andy Beals in a burst of anger at The Well. Mass scribble allowed you to easily erase all your comments in a topic, no matter when they were written. This time, while Mandel erased only his own postings, he cast a wider net across The Well, far beyond his earlier targets of the Weird and Future conferences. This time, he went from conference to conference and deleted nearly everything he had posted in each one.