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

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Post by EnigmaFlare »

JumpCrisscross wrote: post #81
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.

> repost your content to their community who also hate #foobar This is valid. I don't think it rises to the level of preventing them from seeing my public content. But perhaps a brake on their ability to repost it would be courteous.

How about if you're publicly saying things that offend a whole community, take personal responsibility for that and accept whatever offensive things they say about you in response. People have this dumb idea that everyone else should respect them for what they say in public but they have the right to disrespect others. If you can't handle that, stop saying inflammatory things to the whole world.

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

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Post by pbreit »

robertclaus wrote: post #54
buildbot wrote: post #48

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

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.

Unless they allow the reply but hide it from others (ie, shadowban).

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

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Post by sionisrecur »

malshe wrote: post #143
animex wrote: post #60

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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.

A lot of the time those look like bot comments that don't really say anything and could work for any video. Still much better than the bots that just copy a comment from someone else.

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

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Post by steele »

jdminhbg wrote: post #156
a0123 wrote: post #153

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Have you not paid attention to twitter since he bought it? The guy has been forcing his accounts and shit takes onto everyone's timelines. Accounts have mysteriously started following his account when they never manually did it. Muting his account hasn't properly worked since he bought twitter. It's literally what he's been doing it since day 1 of purchase. Sorry if that sounds a bit rude, but I'm just baffled by peo…

I'm sorry you're frustrated, but it has nothing to do with this change, which works in the opposite direction.

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

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Post by yieldcrv »

I think with X’s current audience it makes sense

Since it’s only ragebait accounts now, sometimes they falsely post that someone has deleted their account in response to the ragebaiters post about them

Its just a UX problem, rage baiters actually believe it because X makes it look like the account is gone

Just inaccurate UX

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

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Post by pbreit »

tmpz22 wrote: post #217
pbreit wrote: post #204

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Nope, Twitter blocking is a poorly designed feature that permanently degrades the user experience.

Whose user experience is it degrading? The blocker or the person who behaved in such a way that they got blocked?

Mostly the blockee. Although I think it also devalues the service for some/many blockers.

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

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Post by glandium »

thaumasiotes wrote: post #190
dotnet00 wrote: post #183

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I'd argue that it really depends on the kind of criticism. What I had in mind was more along the lines of accusing someone of wrongdoing rather than just criticizing them. I think tagging someone when you're accusing them of wrongdoing is the fair thing to do, considering how quickly that sort of thing can whip others into a frenzy. I see a lot of this sort of thing, where someone will accuse someone of heinous thing…

https://reason.com/volokh/2019/11/20/academic-subtweeting/ "You can talk to me, but it's unethical to talk about me."

It's kind of the opposite of this quote from Christian Bale: If you have a problem with me, text me. And if you don't have my number, you don't know me well enough to have a problem with me.

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

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Post by saagarjha »

EnigmaFlare wrote: post #221
JumpCrisscross wrote: post #81

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> repost your content to their community who also hate #foobar This is valid. I don't think it rises to the level of preventing them from seeing my public content. But perhaps a brake on their ability to repost it would be courteous.

How about if you're publicly saying things that offend a whole community, take personal responsibility for that and accept whatever offensive things they say about you in response. People have this dumb idea that everyone else should respect them for what they say in public but they have the right to disrespect others. If you can't handle that, stop saying inflammatory things to the whole world.

Have you ever dealt with harassment? Do you think someone should take responsibility for posts that cause them to be harassed?

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

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Post by XorNot »

gkoberger wrote: post #128
dragonelite wrote: post #123

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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.

Well hang on I mean we're also excluding option 3 here: they just straight up broke the service which provided that feature somewhere between haphazardly decommissioning a data center without planning, and the mass layoffs based on code commit printouts, and now no one knows how to fix it.
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