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

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Post by saagarjha »

CydeWeys wrote: post #195
avree wrote: post #168

Earlier quoted context omitted.

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.

I block people on Twitter all the time, but I can't even remember the last time I had to block anyone on reddit (it was years ago). This speaks to the different models between the two -- on reddit I'm only interacting on specific subreddits, which because I've chosen them, have much nicer and more reasonable people than "all of Twitter". Twitter is always just nonstop fighting and yelling.

Reddit has a lot more people who block because they want to get in the last word and prevent you from replying.

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

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Post by hakanderyal »

CydeWeys wrote: post #198
h1fra wrote: post #90

Hiding your posts from abusers is a legitimate use case because most people (emphasis on most) won't bother to go on private browsing every day just to be annoying.

Private browsing doesn't work because Twitter basically requires users to be logged in to see anything. So it really requires having a separate burner Twitter account you'd use to follow people who've blocked you on your main. It's a decent bit of extra effort that also requires a second phone number at this point.

You can open more than 1 account with a single phone number.

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

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Post by kidme5 »

m3kw9 wrote: post #214
arp242 wrote: post #206

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This is the old "it's not perfect, therefore, it's useless" type of argument. No one claimed it's perfect, but that doesn't mean it's useless. You don't want to interact with me? Fine. Then why should I still see your posts? Yes, some crazy people will go to lengths to see it anyway, but most don't and will take the hint, shrug, and go away.

I think is the old double edged sword instead.

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

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Post by daveguy »

dwoldrich wrote: post #189

I wonder how long until X is profitable, and I worry my Elon-hating friend will lose his mind when it happens. The hatred for Elon and Twitter/X, etc took me completely off guard the same way "Kids in Cages" did. I thought, "Where is all this spitting rage for Elon coming from? I thought he was the green energy guy, SpaceX is so cool." I'd love to know where the "Kids in Cages" OP got started and where the evacuate t…

That particular phrase is related to the separation of immigrant children from their families during the Trump administration. Previously children were only put in custody if they were unaccompanied. The Trump admin did it to all families crossing. In separating kids from parents they were also unable to reunite hundreds of families.

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

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Post by XorNot »

simion314 wrote: post #98
JumpCrisscross wrote: post #83

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> all that noise was an attempt to get a discount Was he complaining about bots before he signed? Genuinely can't remember.

>Was he complaining about bots before he signed? Genuinely can't remember. I can't google it for you, so from my memory , he complained that he was tricked by Twitter because a large number of users are bots , and then he promised that he will fix this issue after he get's the control. Probably bots and trolls are good for business since other social media like reddit are also making super easy to create tons of bot/…

Also remember: he wasn't tricked by anyone.

He signed the world's most iron-clad corporate acquisition contract you could for a price far above market rate right before the tech crash, and waived every single right to due-diligence which normal investors include, specifically for things like "oh what if the financials/users aren't what they seem?" or "what if the stock price substantially changes".

It was an utterly ludicrous agreement to sign (though far eclipsed by the the number of financial institutions which agreed to put up the money for it and are basically never going to get it back - though a bunch of the managers and executives losing their bonuses for it is kind of funny).

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

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Post by Arainach »

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.

"Communities" are easy to offend, especially with bad actors lying and stoking flames.

Communities have given death threats to college students who made bad plays in sports games. https://abcnews.go.com/Sports/ncaa-1-3-star-athletes-receive...

There's a long-established pattern linking bullying and suicide, and huge amounts of tougher-to-quantify lesser damage done. Giving people mechanisms to slow and reduce bullying makes perfect sense.

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

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Post by kstrauser »

pbreit wrote: post #226
tmpz22 wrote: post #217

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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.

If I had a Twitter account and blocked someone, it would be with the intention of devaluing the service for them. Someone who was awful enough that I bothered blocking them would devalue my service if they could keep annoying me.
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