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Re: Twitter/X will let people you've blocked see your posts

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Post by falcolas »

nickthegreek wrote: post #110
arielcostas wrote: post #103

Earlier quoted context omitted.

That was always the case until they started requiring to be logged in to see anything

Its not everything, just almost everything. You don't need to be logged in to view a tweet from a direct link.

In some cases yes you do. It depends on how the account is flagged, I'm not sure what the flag is, but valid links can and do return a 404 if you're not logged in.

You also can't view replies or context for individual tweets, which makes seeing one tweet next to useless.

Re: Twitter/X will let people you've blocked see your posts

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Post by johnnyanmac »

antisthenes wrote: post #106
johnnyanmac wrote: post #76

Earlier quoted context omitted.

>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.

> 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.

Oh don't worry, I never commented on the platform. But when it's still the most popular place for indie devs to talk about their stuff I'm still reluctantly forced to at browse around.

Re: Twitter/X will let people you've blocked see your posts

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Post by jdminhbg »

bluescrn wrote: post #86
nicexe wrote: post #46

I always thought this was a stupid restriction. You can't view the post while authenticated but you can view the post while unauthenticated.

AFAIK, you can't view any tweets unless logged in these days. But the sort of user being frequently blocked likely has multiple accounts anyway.

> AFAIK, you can't view any tweets unless logged in these days

You can view a single tweet, but it won't display a thread for you unless you log in.

Re: Twitter/X will let people you've blocked see your posts

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Post by jdminhbg »

adastra22 wrote: post #109
WithinReason wrote: post #62

Earlier quoted context omitted.

You can see public posts if you just use a private window, that's why they are public.

Only if you create a different account and login with that. The point though is how would you even know to look?

You know to look because you see a QT or reply and where the original tweet would be, there's a message about how you can't see the tweet. It's been like that forever.

Re: Twitter/X will let people you've blocked see your posts

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Post by jdminhbg »

h1fra wrote: post #90

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.

They still have to go on private browsing to be annoying, because blocking still prevents interacting with you.

Re: Twitter/X will let people you've blocked see your posts

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Post by jabroni_salad »

simion314 wrote: post #77

I am not an X user, I remember Elon making a lot of noise about bots, did Elon fixed the bot issues? Or all that noise was an attempt to get a discount.

botters seemed to take everything as a challenge. The only thing that has changed is that legitimate operators are paying more.

Re: Twitter/X will let people you've blocked see your posts

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Post by jdminhbg »

Lots of speculation about the motive in here, but isn't the simplest answer (not necessarily the correct one) that it saves billions of DB joins per day? I don't think Elon has made a Twitter decision yet that would have made it more rather than less expensive to run.

Re: Twitter/X will let people you've blocked see your posts

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Post by SketchySeaBeast »

hsbauauvhabzb wrote: post #61
adastra22 wrote: post #55

Earlier quoted context omitted.

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.

If anything, it highlights that public posts are just that, public.

Given that I can't easily the post (and certainly can't follow a thread) without a login, is it really public? It's deliberately obfuscated at the very least.

Re: Twitter/X will let people you've blocked see your posts

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Post by SketchySeaBeast »

CincinnatiMan wrote: post #30

I'm not on Twitter but in its current form, wouldn't a blocked user be able to see the blocker's posts just by using an incognito window or logging in as a different account?

Different account, yes, incognito window, no. You can only see direct links without being logged in.

Re: Twitter/X will let people you've blocked see your posts

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Post by serial_dev »

adastra22 wrote: post #55
buildbot wrote: post #48

This is technically the better option as it doesn’t indicate via sidechannel that someone has blocked you.

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.

Yeah, right… blocking has never helped with any of those.
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