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

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Post by MintPaw »

GenerocUsername wrote: post #293
zzo38computer wrote: post #278

I do not use The X Formerly Known As Twitter, but if I write a message that is intended to be public (regardless of what service it is on), I would intend that people I had blocked are still able to see the message (and make copies of it) if they wish; I would block them because I don't want to see their messages and I do not want to allow them to send messages to me. I would also not want the number of users who blo…

This. There is no such thing as blocked on a public platform. Everyone has always known viewing the site incognito allows you to see blocked content.

That was the case a few years ago, now there's an AI system that decides if you're allowed to view it or if you have to sign in.

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

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Post by the_clarence »

This is great. Some people blocked me for whatever reason but keep commenting on my posts or to responses to my post. It's so annoying to have missing messages in the middle.

This and the fact that your likes are now hidden are great product changes IMO.

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

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Post by the_clarence »

jdminhbg wrote: post #117

Lots of speculation about the motive in here, but isn't the simplest answer (not necessarily the correct one) that it saves billions of DB joins per day? I don't think Elon has made a Twitter decision yet that would have made it more rather than less expensive to run.

IMO it was a product decision, and a great product decision at that (as much as I hate Elon)

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

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Post by sushid »

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?

People used to superblock via "apps" e.g. block this person and all those that follow this person, block everyone in this thread, etc.

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

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Post by throwaway290 »

zzo38computer wrote: post #278

I do not use The X Formerly Known As Twitter, but if I write a message that is intended to be public (regardless of what service it is on), I would intend that people I had blocked are still able to see the message (and make copies of it) if they wish; I would block them because I don't want to see their messages and I do not want to allow them to send messages to me. I would also not want the number of users who blo…

> X Formerly Known As Twitter

Xitter for short.

> I would intend that people I had blocked are still able to see the message (and make copies of it) if they wish; I would block them because I don't want to see their messages and I do not want to allow them to send messages to me

I don't. There are different reasons to block and musk only sees the political one. On personal level I may want to have a public account for something but also don't want some person I know to see it and connect the dots that it is me. Maybe just because it's awkward or maybe be more than that

Imagine you are in an abusive relationship or just have a stalker. If you are the victim you want to escape and built relationships with other people. You create an alt with another name and block your abuser in advance so there is no way of finding out whose account it is unless you are betrayed by a friend. But now twitter will betray you. Unless you go private account and then no one talks to you.

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

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Post by zerocrates »

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?

With Twitter you would have been able to just do incognito mode. In the "X" era, following someone's posts when not logged in is pretty difficult as the profiles don't actually show their current tweets but rather a sort of random pile, maybe popular ones?, and that's only when you don't just get directed to sign in. You can see a particular message if you have a direct link to it, but you can't see or follow any threads, etc...

Using a different account would work, sure, though that of course evades the block entirely, in both directions.

The point was probably moreso that the posts wouldn't show up in the blocked person's feed, they'd have to actively seek them out. That probably does make a real difference.

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

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Post by throwaway290 »

homefree wrote: post #173
motohagiography wrote: post #166

Earlier quoted context omitted.

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 ori…

I think X is still really great and it's even better now that you can finally pay to have no ads (and verified means verified instead of 'friends of a twitter employee'. It does require some effort to curate a worthwhile feed though (and you have to be mindful to not get sucked into junk/avoid the for you tab).

I somewhat agree that it is still great. I do not agree that it is better because you can pay or be verified, but my feed is okay

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

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Post by diob »

cameldrv wrote: post #142

Makes sense given the current financials. The way you make money in social media is to get people pissed off and arguing with each other. Preventing someone from seeing things that make them mad is just leaving money on the table that they can't afford anymore.

Yeah, I know some folks who would try to bully folks, so they blocked them. Then they would just try and get other folks to get pictures of tweets.

Sigh.

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

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Post by brianmurphy »

simion314 wrote: post #77

I am not an X user, I remember Elon making a lot of noise about bots, did Elon fixed the bot issues? Or all that noise was an attempt to get a discount.

I don't know what kind of content these other people are curating with their X accounts, but I never see bots.

I primarily follow entrepreneurial & fitness accounts.

Honestly X, youtube and HN satisfy just about everything I need for user generated content.

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