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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.
You're not able to view profiles when logged out.
One can create a new account anyways.
So it's never been hidden from them...
It's just a feature to reduce interactions, not keep things secret
It says a lot about the HN community that the overwhelming majority of people here seemingly emphasize with the person being blocked rather than the person doing the blocking.
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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.
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I have no idea who that is, but Twitter/X increasingly sounds like it's degenerated into a schoolyard (where the richest kid asked his dad to buy the land next to the school building and put up a private playground for him).
This whole X debacle has fragmented the microblogging universe which is actually a good thing. TruthSocial and X have become right-wing staples. Threads seems to be full of positivity right now. Mastodon for the techies and niche communities. I've actually started exploring other sane places of community gathering like Reddit and oddly enough YouTube comments. As Karpathy recently commented, the YouTube comments sect…
I may be completely off, of course, but whenever I look at Twitter (without owing an account, so can't do it properly), I see people engaged in heated cross-wing arguments. If Twitter were so right-wing, wouldn't you expect far less arguments as there wouldn't be so many people voicing the opposite viewpoint? For comparison, how many users argue left-wing opinions on TruthSocial?
It says a lot about the HN community that the overwhelming majority of people here seemingly emphasize with the person being blocked rather than the person doing the blocking.
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> Some kind of "brilliant" billionaire had put his clown shoe down and blocked Twitter's 5th largest, and conveniently predominantly Portuguese speaking population Is the supreme federal court's judge of the country with said population a billionaire? I had no idea.
Did the supreme federal court judge force twitter to break that nations laws?
(You wouldn't argue that Zuckerberg forced Facebook or Instagram to break Russian laws, or that Sundar Pichai forced Youtube to do the same, would you?)
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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.
yeah on their screen? How can blocking influence the ranking?
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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…
My stance on moderation is that if it is not illegal the user should block accounts posting things they don't want to see. The algorithm is designed to create an echo chamber for you and will eventually do so given the right signals.
Also I understand Musk's position in spirit but, IME it isn't a sustainable or beneficial approach for society
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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.