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

Post by dotnet00 » Tue, Sep 24, 2024, 9:53 PM UTC

trompetenaccoun wrote: post #133

viraptor wrote: post #53

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It provides friction for further misbehaving. Imagine you blocked someone who has serious issues with people who #foobar. It's better for you if they can't easily find you and repost your content to their community who also hate #foobar. It's not perfect, but the friction helps prevent drive-by bad behaviour.

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…

Post by a0123 » Tue, Sep 24, 2024, 9:54 PM UTC

jdminhbg wrote: post #129

gkoberger wrote: post #126

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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.

Post by heraldgeezer » Tue, Sep 24, 2024, 9:55 PM UTC

Kye wrote: post #3

rogerrogerr wrote: post #2

Musk is right on this one. It wasn’t serving any real purpose to let me selectively block other people from _seeing_ my posts (but _interacting_ does make sense). If I genuinely don’t want someone to see my posts, I just can’t put it on Twitter/X unless I have a private profile (is that still a thing?). Otherwise, it’s a public platform, in that anyone can register with little more than an email address and see my po…

Twitter itself recognized there are levels of public early on. The original site was every post in one timeline. The things I say to a room or to people at a table are not meant for everyone at the event. The phrase context collapse came about and persists for a reason. A blocked person has been kicked out of the public local to the poster and their followers. It doesn't make sense for them to be able to continue to…

Post by heraldgeezer » Tue, Sep 24, 2024, 9:57 PM UTC

Dwedit wrote: post #84

Good. Blocking is unidirectional, you prevent yourself from seeing the other person's posts. It should not be bidirectional, as this informs the other person that you have blocked them. Reddit implements blocking as bidirectional, and even tells you (using coded language such as "deleted" and "unavailable") that there is a post in the thread from a person who has blocked you, and includes a permalink to that post. Th…

Post by dotnet00 » Tue, Sep 24, 2024, 9:59 PM UTC

watt wrote: post #91

ksp-atlas wrote: post #69

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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.