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#123Lots 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.
That was my speculation also on why he disabled seeing who also liked a post. Im sure it saves a lot in compute and bandwidth.
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#124Earlier quoted context omitted.
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.
There does seem to be an exception for public outlets.
I clicked a link to NYPDs twitter and didn’t have to AuthN. Makes sense too; every org who wanted their content to be fully available to anyone would leave if twitter mandated login
(Although they still use Facebook)
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#125With that kind of decisions, always assume that there is a hidden agenda. In that case, i could imagine for example that this can be something done to ease a further AI feature. it is almost impossible to train an AI for content with individual customization. So if Y is blocked to see your content, that is impossible to have AI trained on your tweets and still be sure that Y can't get the content of your tweets.
If the previous Elon/X rumors are true(a big if, perhaps), I feel like the hidden agenda here is more likely that someone blocked Musk and Musk is upset that he can no longer see the posts.
Idk he has at least three alts (the weird baby role play one, Adrian Dittmann, DogeDesigner). Though maybe the people who have blocked him who he wants to see also know to block those to be fair
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#126Lots 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.
The simplest answer is that Elon is blocked by a lot of people, as are many people whose voices he wants heard, and believes that it goes against his flavor of "free speech".
He's been unblocking himself over the years, and this feels like the next logical step for him.
I think its simple... a lot of people have blocked Elon, so Elon thinks blocking is bad.
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#127Earlier quoted context omitted.
Last time I remember, YouTube comments were full of spam bots talking about vile things to get attention
And would you care to document for posterity when was that last time? I think the change in YouTube comments happened some 7-8 years ago, so 2017 or so.
For me, the last time I saw it was last week. Prior to that, probably the week before. It's definitely gotten better over the last 2-3 years, but it's certainly not perfect.
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#128Lots 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.
That was my speculation also on why he disabled seeing who also liked a post. Im sure it saves a lot in compute and bandwidth.
This wasn't about money either. This was him wanting users to be able to boost reprehensible content without having to put their names on it.
He sees this as an antidote to cancel culture; he's allowing people to support things they agree with without society's repercussions.
Re: Twitter/X will let people you've blocked see your posts
#129Lots 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.
The simplest answer is that Elon is blocked by a lot of people, as are many people whose voices he wants heard, and believes that it goes against his flavor of "free speech". He's been unblocking himself over the years, and this feels like the next logical step for him. I think its simple... a lot of people have blocked Elon, so Elon thinks blocking is bad.
That simple answer is wrong, because the changes don't make it so that people who blocked Elon see Elon's posts now.
Re: Twitter/X will let people you've blocked see your posts
#130With that kind of decisions, always assume that there is a hidden agenda. In that case, i could imagine for example that this can be something done to ease a further AI feature. it is almost impossible to train an AI for content with individual customization. So if Y is blocked to see your content, that is impossible to have AI trained on your tweets and still be sure that Y can't get the content of your tweets.
More simply: people are increasingly blocking advertisers to hide their advertisements. This would prevent you from shielding yourself from ads.