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

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

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Post by nailer »

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…

Not being able to see someone else’s tweets until you made a different account was always security theatre.

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

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Post by willy_k »

add-sub-mul-div wrote: post #16
barbazoo wrote: post #9

Earlier quoted context omitted.

> The only effective way I've found to stop seeing stuff from people I dgaf in my feed was to block them. Do you see people's posts even if you don't follow them?

Much of the worsening of Twitter is centered around them deciding what you should see in order to maximize outrage, engagement, revenue. This means that in the replies to a tweet, for example, they can now rank highly all the spam and culture war bullshit that people have previously blocked.

It doesn’t mean that, it means all the bullshit that people have blocked can now see their tweets.

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

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Post by bensecure »

JohnMakin wrote: post #12
bensecure wrote: post #4

Earlier quoted context omitted.

"Can be seen by anyone in the world except for tom because fuck tom" isn't a different "level of public", it's just caprice. As the GP mentioned, if you want to restrict who can see your tweets, set your account to private.

Maybe caprice except in the exceedingly common instances where someone is the target of harassment. I mean this is the obvious example, there are others. In that case "make your profile private if you dont want to be harassed/stalked" is not really that palatable.

> In that case "make your profile private if you don't want to be harassed/stalked" is not really that palatable.

If someone is harassing you on twitter, then blocking them still stops that, modulo them making a new account. Stalking, in the sense of looking at your public posts, can't be stopped, because it's trivial for them to open your posts in a private window, or create a new account just for stalking (which of course they wouldn't tell you about, hence you couldn't block it). So in fact the only option you have to avoid such stalking is to make your account private, period.

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

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Post by [deleted] »

silisili wrote: post #27
greatgib wrote: post #18

With that kind of decisions, always assume that there is a hidden agenda. In that case, i could imagine for example that this can be something done to ease a further AI feature. it is almost impossible to train an AI for content with individual customization. So if Y is blocked to see your content, that is impossible to have AI trained on your tweets and still be sure that Y can't get the content of your tweets.

If the previous Elon/X rumors are true(a big if, perhaps), I feel like the hidden agenda here is more likely that someone blocked Musk and Musk is upset that he can no longer see the posts.

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

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Post by amenhotep »

CincinnatiMan wrote: post #30

I'm not on Twitter but in its current form, wouldn't a blocked user be able to see the blocker's posts just by using an incognito window or logging in as a different account?

Yes. It's always been a stupid, petulant implementation, and its widespread acceptance is confusing.

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

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Post by wannacboatmovie »

silisili wrote: post #27
greatgib wrote: post #18

With that kind of decisions, always assume that there is a hidden agenda. In that case, i could imagine for example that this can be something done to ease a further AI feature. it is almost impossible to train an AI for content with individual customization. So if Y is blocked to see your content, that is impossible to have AI trained on your tweets and still be sure that Y can't get the content of your tweets.

If the previous Elon/X rumors are true(a big if, perhaps), I feel like the hidden agenda here is more likely that someone blocked Musk and Musk is upset that he can no longer see the posts.

It's quite foolish to assume that they couldn't quietly code up a "God mode" for Elon's account, or assume that isn't already in place, and instead had to create a feature to roll out to 350M users where Elon had an account no different than the unwashed masses.

It's his site, they would code up whatever he asked, X is no longer design by committee. Remember when the Reddit CEO/owner/whatever was hand editing the database to alter users' comments to make it look like they posted something they hadn't?

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