Two things:

Most people don't have burners or don't really log out of their accounts so blocks making it so you can prevent certain people from looking at your account is a small layer of protection. it's also just a convention in social media. it's how Facebook and Instagram (and I presume Tiktok though I don't have one) works.

Second, the reason behind it is very annoying. Elon is just mad that he's one of the most blocked accounts on the site and he knows that shitty fascist dudes get blocked on that site at a high rate, he just wants to make the site cater to their whims by making it easier for them to see around blocks. the blocking system was never perfect but it's still miles better than this.

Or literally just open xcancel or another nitter instance in a new tab.

I agree, it doesn't really prevent anyone from seeing public posts.

Who's idea was it to make musk a 🍉

I spent way too long (not that long, just too long) trying to figure out why this would be a big priority for Palestine supporters either way.

Edit: So many other melons to choose from, another name for a cantaloupe is literally muskmelon...

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Regulations don't have to apply to sufficiently rich and narcissistic cishet white men and their whims.

If this were actually a violation of the ToS you'd have to say goodbye to most apps with user generated content, because they work the same way (including lemmy). To my reading the Apple ToS doesn't even require that users can mute each other, just that the devs can block users to moderate the platform.

(and the most disgusting stalkers)

Now that I can see my ex's posts she will certainly get back together with me

So you don't see them. This is how most services work.