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

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bragr wrote: post #135
trompetenaccoun wrote: post #133

Earlier quoted context omitted.

It's the opposite. People with serious issues (i.e. stalkers, trolls etc.) will continue following on a second account or proxy. Meanwhile regular accounts with legitimate criticisms (for example pointing out misinformation, calling out bias, and so on) get blocked by bad actors and those will not find them anymore and repost because they don't invest time in it. Blocking mainly prevents regular normal users from see…

Those are all issues as well, but brigading is absolutely a thing.

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

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Post by cameldrv »

Makes sense given the current financials. The way you make money in social media is to get people pissed off and arguing with each other. Preventing someone from seeing things that make them mad is just leaving money on the table that they can't afford anymore.

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

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Post by malshe »

animex wrote: post #60
pavlov wrote: post #52

Earlier quoted context omitted.

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…

I think most people commenting on YT have realized that only positivity gets visibility. Pick any video that has decent view count and you will see the first few comments saying "I just want to say, this video is so amazing" or "Wow you have put in so much work in making this video". Then the creator would like those comments and they stay at the top.

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

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Post by heraldgeezer »

animex wrote: post #60
pavlov wrote: post #52

Earlier quoted context omitted.

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…

I have really come to understand that some Twitter users see Twitter as their own private garden somehow and do not realize that anyone can see your posts... So somehow it becomes uncomfortable when they are reminded of this fact.

You seem like one of these people.

You ONYL used twitter? You didnt use Reddit or Youtube? I am baffled but this makes the upset people make a bit more sense. Twitter was "theirs" so nobody else dare come in. They are the ones complaining about gatekeeping etc but treat Twitter like a chatroom and become offended when someone calls them out.

For the record, I do not have a Twitter account/phone banned. I am not in the USA. If I could vote in your elections I would vote Kamala. Just to be clear and to calm your blood pressue.

>Threads seems to be full of positivity right now.

Toxic positivity sure. ♥‿♥ YOU GO QUEEN!! SLAY!!! ♥‿♥

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

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Post by jfengel »

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.

In theory you can't see any tweets at all, because they're now just "posts".

But everybody still calls them "tweets" because it was an amazing bit of branding.

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

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Post by homefree »

I'd like to be able to unblock people. An unblock all would be nice to get back to baseline. A while back I blocked everyone that followed a specific user that kept appearing in my feed (this was prior to the musk acquisition where you can view accounts you follow explicitly which is nice).

This was around 50k people (it did make a noticeable difference). The unblock is broken though - I was able to unblock maybe 1k, but now it lists nothing and it's impossible to unblock any others.

As is I just do it occasionally when I see a blocked account appear in a reply.

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

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Post by trompetenaccoun »

bragr wrote: post #135
trompetenaccoun wrote: post #133

Earlier quoted context omitted.

It's the opposite. People with serious issues (i.e. stalkers, trolls etc.) will continue following on a second account or proxy. Meanwhile regular accounts with legitimate criticisms (for example pointing out misinformation, calling out bias, and so on) get blocked by bad actors and those will not find them anymore and repost because they don't invest time in it. Blocking mainly prevents regular normal users from see…

Those are all issues as well, but brigading is absolutely a thing.

Just to be clear they still won't be able to interact with you after they're blocked. The only change is they can keep seeing your tweets directly in their account, as opposed to having to log out.

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

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Post by sionisrecur »

teruakohatu wrote: post #131
steinuil wrote: post #85

Earlier quoted context omitted.

To be fair, you can barely view any post while unauthenticated these days. Sometimes I click on a link to a tweet on my work laptop (where I'm not authenticated) and I get immediately assaulted by several pop-ups and cookie bars and redirected to the landing page when try to dismiss them.

I have given up trying to view content unauthenticated, I used to be able to close the popups but now I get redirected to a login when I do.

You can insert "cancel" between "x" and ".com"

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

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Post by heraldgeezer »

Ekaros wrote: post #70

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.

>You post something in public it is public

I find that Twitter users somehow misunderstand this. Especially small ones that only interact with themselves, posting misinformation. See a lot of the Palestine Twitter. Then a bigger account comes and comments/corrects or spreads their OWN PUBLIC POST. Then it's an "attack". Its baffling.

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

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Post by sionisrecur »

viraptor wrote: post #50
buildbot wrote: post #48

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

You still can't interact with them, do you know you're blocked.

Once upon a time, you could interact with someone using "@nickname ..." or retweet them using "RE: @nickname: ...".
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