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

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Post by rbanffy »

OrigamiPastrami wrote: post #154
homefree wrote: post #146

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,…

You blocked 50k people? Don't you have to block people one by one? How did you even do this?

You could upload blocklists.

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

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Post by dotnet00 »

tadfisher wrote: post #11
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…

How can I keep Musk's posts from showing up in my feed if blocking doesn't hide them? I think that's the real motivation, actually.

You can still mute his account. That has always been an option, and that is not changing with this.

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

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Post by rbanffy »

michaelteter wrote: post #75
Hamuko wrote: post #67

Earlier quoted context omitted.

But interaction between accounts is still not possible?

The blocked person can obviously create a new account and bypass that block to some degree, but as other have mentioned it will prevent them from reposting on their main account

Unless they do a screenshot. Not a big deterrent.

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

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Post by recursive »

qiqitori wrote: post #64
malikNF wrote: post #59

Earlier quoted context omitted.

What thread has Elon lost really? When Elon bought twitter there was a huge wave of people and the media telling us it was over in 6 months, when Elon fired staff they told us X would go down forever in a few months. Under Elon imo X has gotten a lot better, I see more content that relates to me and has since found myself using X more than all the other social media platforms combined. Blocking content makes no sense…

> I see more content that relates to me and has since found myself using X more than all the other social media platforms combined. You do know that you shouldn't be looking at stuff it's recommending to you, right? Think of something you'd like to know more about and then look it up yourself.

And why not? What's your authority on the subject? From here, it looks like more internet arguments. I mean, I don't use twitter at all. I've never understood the UI. But if you like what it's recommending, why should I believe your assertion that I "shouldn't" be looking at it?

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

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Post by motohagiography »

homefree wrote: post #146

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,…

when I used it instead of block lists I filtered based on emojis and that got rid of most of the noise. I left X because either I couldn't escape my filter bubble in spite of following some very diverse accounts, or people on it were really just that mid.

it's optimized for engagement, so what you "like," and what keeps you there are probably not the same things. we complain about slop now, but the algos were the original slop, the future was here it just wasn't evenly distributed.

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

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Post by DonHopkins »

jfengel wrote: post #145
bluescrn wrote: post #86

Earlier 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.

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.

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

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Post by avree »

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.

Reddit's implementation is even worse. It breaks all sorts of commenting/replying even down the comment chain, if anyone in the parent is blocked. And, the mobile app shows no usable errors. But, you can log out, or even make a second account, and see everything.

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

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Post by danudey »

adastra22 wrote: post #56
robertclaus wrote: post #54

Earlier quoted context omitted.

I assume it still blocks actions when someone tries to interact with the user, so the fact that they're blocked isn't a secret. It seems like more of a convenience feature for the person who got blocked (since they would otherwise need to log out), which is an odd direction to push a product.

Logging out doesn’t work anymore. They would need to make an alt account.

So since abusers, stalkers, and harassers can't just log out to view the blocker's posts, X is making it so that they can view those posts without logging out or changing to an alt account. That makes it a lot more convenient for people who were already blocked for bad behavior to get mad at what someone posted.

Sounds like they're catering to the kinds of people who would normally have gotten around blocks by using private browsing.

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