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I always thought this was a stupid restriction. You can't view the post while authenticated but you can view the post while unauthenticated.
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It might look like this, but thinking about it, I guess it's still useful in reducing unwanted interactions. People are lazy, and thus adding even a little friction can help a lot in preventing them from doing stalkering, spreading hate etc. I.e. of course it's possible to login with another user, find the one who blocked you, make a screenshot or something and then quote it or perform any other interaction in your m…
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It defeats the whole point of blocking as a safety mechanism against stalking, harassment, and mob dog piling behavior. Once again, Elon utterly fails to understand the service he bought.
You can see public posts if you just use a private window, that's why they are public.
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I have no idea who that is, but Twitter/X increasingly sounds like it's degenerated into a schoolyard (where the richest kid asked his dad to buy the land next to the school building and put up a private playground for him).
This whole X debacle has fragmented the microblogging universe which is actually a good thing. TruthSocial and X have become right-wing staples. Threads seems to be full of positivity right now. Mastodon for the techies and niche communities. I've actually started exploring other sane places of community gathering like Reddit and oddly enough YouTube comments. As Karpathy recently commented, the YouTube comments sect…
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>Was he complaining about bots before he signed? Genuinely can't remember. I can't google it for you, so from my memory , he complained that he was tricked by Twitter because a large number of users are bots , and then he promised that he will fix this issue after he get's the control. Probably bots and trolls are good for business since other social media like reddit are also making super easy to create tons of bot/…
> he complained that he was tricked by Twitter because a large number of users are bots , and then he promised that he will fix this issue after he get's the control How making a noise about it after the price is agreed be “an attempt to get a discount”? If anything, it was an attempt to get out of the deal. (And if I remember correctly, the argument failed because he had been complaining about bots prior to signing.…
Sounds entirely reasonable. You post something in public it is public. Blocking direct interaction is fine, but any expectation that other party cannot see your stuff is just insane. Only absolutely clueless or stupid should have believed that. If you don't want someone to point out your stupid takes don't make them in public.
>If you don't want someone to point out your stupid takes don't make them in public. It's usually the other way around for me. I'd rather not have every post about some game I like devolve into a culture war.
Then you should probably stop using X altogether.
It makes sense. Hiding info that is available when you log in as someone else doesn't
Sure it does. Very few people are going to obsessively look over every person's twitter account using multiple logins to check and see if that account maybe posted something that is being hidden from them.
Hiding your posts from abusers is a legitimate use case because most people (emphasis on most) won't bother to go on private browsing every day just to be annoying.
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It defeats the whole point of blocking as a safety mechanism against stalking, harassment, and mob dog piling behavior. Once again, Elon utterly fails to understand the service he bought.
You can see public posts if you just use a private window, that's why they are public.
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You can see public posts if you just use a private window, that's why they are public.
That was always the case until they started requiring to be logged in to see anything