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

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Post by CobrastanJorji »

sph wrote: post #334
renewiltord wrote: post #326

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Bluesky is fortunately a honeypot where crazy people all flocked to so that they could post predictions on when Twitter would collapse (highest option: 2 weeks). I think the most effective tool on bluesky is being on bluesky so no one can read what one says because you’re constantly blocking each other even though everyone’s got the same views.

Bluesky is the weirdest echo chamber of white liberal queer Americans, it feels like entering a museum or a theme park where everyone is the same, posts the same things, and agrees with each other to demonise the same things. With Twitter being the cesspool of humanity—but with a ton of variety and opinions—I don't know which is worse, so I use neither.

That's a little unfair of a description. It comes down to who you're following, I guess. For example, something like 70% of Bluesky's content is in Portuguese.

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

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Post by ipaddr »

throwaway290 wrote: post #305
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 fo…

They could use another account or no account. Remember your posts are public. If you are trying to hide from an ex or stalker posting your thoughts publicly will expose you by default. Trying to change names but keep a public friend list of contacts known to ex (and maybe stalker) is not going to turn out well.

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

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Post by Seattle3503 »

Mashimo wrote: post #324
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…

Reddit does it similar. When someone blocks you, you can't see their comments. You can't even respond to other people who wrote on your threads. For example if you would block someone, they could not reply on this/my post here, because it's based on yours. Helps things from escalating I guess.

I've found in some communities the most caustic, snappy, and prolific commentors will block you the moment you disagree with them. The result is that everyone who disagrees with them is eventually blocked, and their snappy comments sit at the top of threads, uncontested.

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

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Post by pxtail »

throwaway290 wrote: post #305
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 fo…

And now imagine that you are small city governor or fire department, person who manages profile blocked certain individuals because of inappropriate messages, spam, whatever - now potentially important local news cannot be delivered to that person. Yeah, I know, I know public institutions shouldn't use and empower private platforms but this is reality we live in.

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

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Post by aucisson_masque »

MavisBacon wrote: post #338
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.

Going to have to agree with this. A semi-related anecdote- I spend an embarrassing amount of time on a music message board with a probably ~97% American user base. It's dedicated to a specific American band but is bizarrely active considering there has not been a UI update of note for maybe 20 years. Parts of the UI have always been frustrating but the culture within the community was palpable and a lot of people gre…

Moderation is a double edged sword, I get Musk stance, he is just pro freedom.

Of course bots and state's funded campaigns on internet are to be hunted because they prevent everyone's freedom but beside that people should be free to say the dumbest possible things. Whatever it hurts someone else, that's the only way to make people change their mind.

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

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Post by IntelMiner »

CobrastanJorji wrote: post #341
sph wrote: post #334

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Bluesky is the weirdest echo chamber of white liberal queer Americans, it feels like entering a museum or a theme park where everyone is the same, posts the same things, and agrees with each other to demonise the same things. With Twitter being the cesspool of humanity—but with a ton of variety and opinions—I don't know which is worse, so I use neither.

That's a little unfair of a description. It comes down to who you're following, I guess. For example, something like 70% of Bluesky's content is in Portuguese.

Some kind of "brilliant" billionaire had put his clown shoe down and blocked Twitter's 5th largest, and conveniently predominantly Portuguese speaking population

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

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Post by davedx »

throwaway290 wrote: post #305
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 fo…

> 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.

Blocking them isn't going to help right? They might see they're blocked and wonder why and log out to see the posts. This doesn't make sense to me...

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

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Post by ID1452319 »

This already kind of happens. There is a right wing commentator who blocked me as I kept fact checking his posts.

However, if I create a list and someone on that list retweets the blocker's post, I can see it.

Clearly Twitter can't be bothered to implement blocking properly, so they've taken this step to "unblock" all content.

At least it is consistent.

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