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

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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.

You're not able to view profiles when logged out.

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

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It literally doesn't work. You need to be logged into Twitter to see basically anything. Twitter logged out experience is basically just a login page.

Couldn't you just login with a different account?

Sure. But let's look at where we are now. If you're blocked from viewing an account, you need to switch to a different account (possibly in an incognito window rather than adding the account?) and explicitly load the tweet in question.

Hold up, how does the blocked person even know about the tweet? That should be an indication that we're not talking about reality any more.

The purpose of the block button, which Elon still doesn't understand, is to remove your posts from that person's algorithmic feed. Make it so that they don't get exposed to or notifications about your content, at least without creating a new account (not much you can do about that).

Why does that matter? Harassment. There are tons of people on Twitter, with large followings, that dunk-tweet or otherwise harass people, and in doing so end up triggering a brigade. If you've ever had the misfortune of being the victim of one of these negative engagements, you would understand how much this sucks. It destroys usability of the app as you have to wade through literally hundreds of cheap variation of middle school insults just to find any legitimate content.

You can't block the hordes of marauding masses, but if you block the key instigators, the problem goes away. They can't interact with you or subtweet you, yes, but they ALSO aren't notified of the things you say, and therefore aren't likely to spread links to your content in private group chats where this trolling behavior is organized.

You can autistically insist that akshully the block feature doesn't prevent someone from jumping through some hoops to view your tweets, but that's missing the point. It still solves a real world problem in its current form.

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

#313

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You could upload blocklists.

Sounds like people weren’t content with how bubble it was and needed extra double bubble.

blocking anyone who pays for the premium subscription contiunes to be a solid enough heuristic

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

#314
Bluesky's Twitter account is appropriately crowing about their superior blocking features: https://twitter.com/bluesky/status/1838292181909672312:

> damn that's crazy. Anyway on bluesky, users have named the blocking function "the nuclear block" because it's such a powerful tool to reduce harassment and dogpiling. You should have control over your experience online.

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

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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.

No it doesn't.

If you blocked Elon's account, you'll still see it on your timeline.

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

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I haven't seen any official reasoning for this. Does anyone have a link to the explanation for this change occurring to begin with? I would like if there was some technical or biz reasoning behind it, maybe I've just not seen it?

The closest I've seen is a single tweet from Musk that says "High time this happened." So I guess the reason is that Elon Musk wanted it to change. I kind of wonder how many accounts Musk follows that have blocked Elon Musk.

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

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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.

"AI system"? I think it’s

   if Referer != ''

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

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It defeats the whole point of blocking as a safety mechanism against stalking, harassment, and mob dog piling behavior. Once again, Elon utterly fails to understand the service he bought.

Yeah, right… blocking has never helped with any of those.

It has. I speak from personal experience. I have multiple times experienced massive brigading from certain accounts. I blocked them and it stopped. Sure they could still find my tweets and try to instigate something, but in practice they don't. They just whine once about being blocked and move on to some other target.
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