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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
#382Earlier quoted context omitted.
The point of blocking is to prevent harassment, no? Hiding the blocker's posts from the blockee puts up an additional barrier to interaction. Even if it can be circumvented, it still requires some effort and may dissuade the person from continuing the harassment. There is a reason why this is the standard implementation for almost every social media site, and petulance has nothing to do with it.
The point of blocking is to prevent harassment, no? No, the point is "I don't like this person for whatever reason so I don't want to see their posts". "I don't want this person to see my public posts" can be done by making an account private, or not posting the posts publicly. Otherwise it opens the door to trollish behavior like reply-and-block-to-prevent-retort. To stop harassment, reach out to the platform, assum…
> To stop harassment, reach out to the platform, assuming it cares about harassment, and if it doesn't, contact law enforcement, or file a lawsuit
Your wording suggests that you seem to be aware that none of these avenues actually work in the real world, which is precisely why platforms have the ability to block.
Re: Twitter/X will let people you've blocked see your posts
#383if I have to read Elon's posted in my timeline when I went out of my way to block his grifting *s, I will 100% quit twitter
This is not what's being talked about.
If you blocked elon's twitter, you will not see his tweets in your timeline.
But elon can still see your tweets.
Re: Twitter/X will let people you've blocked see your posts
#384Earlier 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.
And everybody is posting screenshots of their X posts.
That they only make to „educate“ X people, but bsky followers should really see their good work.
I mean, just be on X if most of your bsky posts are really X posts.
Re: Twitter/X will let people you've blocked see your posts
#385Lots 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.
That was my speculation also on why he disabled seeing who also liked a post. Im sure it saves a lot in compute and bandwidth.
On the flip side of this, they turned on the (at least at first, fictitious) view counts for the opposite reason - despite being costly to calculate accurately, they provide an ego boost.
Re: Twitter/X will let people you've blocked see your posts
#386Earlier quoted context omitted.
I guess all the people that could disagree and downvote just do not see the comment.
i think there should be an option, where you automatically downvote a blocked user's post/comment, even without seeing it. If that user doesn't have many people blocking them, then this will barely affect the votes. If they have tonnes of blockers, then would indicate that they probably deserved it, and the downvotes would make sense anyway. It would prevent echo chambers from forming.
On small sub-reddits even something like -5 votes will have a huge impact.
If you are on a bigger forum, block a few because you just don't want to see their posts. Or they are bots. Suddenly you have huge problems on small subreddits.
And I don't see a huge benefit to it. People clean up their block list maybe? But for what.
Re: Twitter/X will let people you've blocked see your posts
#387Earlier quoted context omitted.
> 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...
If they don't see the tweets they will almost totally never discover the account to even know they are blocked
Re: Twitter/X will let people you've blocked see your posts
#388Earlier quoted context omitted.
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.
You can use Nitter to view content - list of servers here: https://github.com/zedeus/nitter/wiki/Instances
Re: Twitter/X will let people you've blocked see your posts
#389Earlier quoted context omitted.
> 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.
> They could use another account or no account
It's true they could also create an alt, it's a weapons race
> but keep a public friend list of contacts known to ex
Well in my case I add almost no one from the other life, very selective. But me is not about abuse or anything, just trying a new thing. If I could not block certain people fully I would not use that platform for this.
I agree blocking can also be used in unseemly ways though
Re: Twitter/X will let people you've blocked see your posts
#390Earlier quoted context omitted.
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.
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