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

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Post by nova22033 »

aucisson_masque wrote: post #347
MavisBacon wrote: post #338

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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…

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.

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

Does not apply in India, Turkey, Brazil..

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

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Post by gordian-mind »

throwaway290 wrote: post #396
pxtail wrote: post #345

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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.

If proprietary platform like twitter being official channel for government is a dream of Musk he should give official accounts special status where blocking is disabled both ways but we know he'll never do that

Why would he never do something like that if it's a dream of his?

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

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Post by throwaway290 »

gordian-mind wrote: post #442
throwaway290 wrote: post #396

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If proprietary platform like twitter being official channel for government is a dream of Musk he should give official accounts special status where blocking is disabled both ways but we know he'll never do that

Why would he never do something like that if it's a dream of his?

Free speech maximalism and anti establishment stuff against Twitter as official channel generating loads of money

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

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Post by navane »

setgree wrote: post #245
jprd wrote: post #244

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?

My totally unspported hypothesis is that many, many people have blocked Elon -- I have -- and he knows that and hates it. We know that Elon once demanded, on superbowl Sunday, "demanded that his engineers find out why" a tweet of his was underperforming relative to a tweet from Biden, and then had the algorithm modified to boost his content [0]. Would unblocking the (presumably) most blocked person on twitter be such…

But with the change, you still wouldn't see Elon's tweets right? But now he can see yours, I doubt that's what he's after.

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

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Post by heraldgeezer »

yifanl wrote: post #140
heraldgeezer wrote: post #137

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>This is just one more example of Twitter going out of their way to work against the best interests of their users. Why does it matter? If I block people in a Discord server THEY can still see what I type. Why does it matter? I have really come to understand that some Twitter users see Twitter as their own private garden somehow and do not realize that anyone can see your posts... So somehow it becomes uncomfortable…

Are you seriously asking why you shouldn't make users uncomfortable with your product?

You can still block, and it will work like any other social media product. Only the twitter crazies have their panties in a twist over this.

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

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Post by whamlastxmas »

bagels wrote: post #372
smcl wrote: post #351

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I have literally never encountered this. If people (plural) are calling you a creep for what you do in the gym you might want to do some reflection on whether you're actually the one in the wrong

It's this whole weird tiktok meme. The tiktokers are the bad guys. They just go in the gym record themselves posing and to complain about anyone walking in to their shot.

A lot of this is fake and scripted

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

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Post by gordian-mind »

dangerwill wrote: post #125
silisili wrote: post #27

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If the previous Elon/X rumors are true(a big if, perhaps), I feel like the hidden agenda here is more likely that someone blocked Musk and Musk is upset that he can no longer see the posts.

Idk he has at least three alts (the weird baby role play one, Adrian Dittmann, DogeDesigner). Though maybe the people who have blocked him who he wants to see also know to block those to be fair

These accounts do not seem to be alts.

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

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Post by gordian-mind »

a0123 wrote: post #153
jdminhbg wrote: post #129

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That simple answer is wrong, because the changes don't make it so that people who blocked Elon see Elon's posts now.

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…

Muting his account has worked for me.

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

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Post by nerdix »

navane wrote: post #444
setgree wrote: post #245

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My totally unspported hypothesis is that many, many people have blocked Elon -- I have -- and he knows that and hates it. We know that Elon once demanded, on superbowl Sunday, "demanded that his engineers find out why" a tweet of his was underperforming relative to a tweet from Biden, and then had the algorithm modified to boost his content [0]. Would unblocking the (presumably) most blocked person on twitter be such…

But with the change, you still wouldn't see Elon's tweets right? But now he can see yours, I doubt that's what he's after.

He may not care about the average Twitter user who blocks him. But there are likely many influential people who have blocked him (but may also be tweeting about him) and he may want to see their posts.

He may also want the ability to reply to things they tweet without being accused of giving himself special access.

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

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Post by NoGravitas »

pjc50 wrote: post #425
Melchizedek wrote: post #353

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There seems to be an extreme obsession with blocking, banning, censoring, demonetizing, deplatforming, firing, unbanking, un-personing. And this is from people whose opininions already completely dominate mainstream media and all of public life. This is not healthy.

> And this is from people whose opininions already completely dominate mainstream media and all of public life Which people and which opinions? Be specific here.

Media literacy in 2024 needs to include being aware of (((dog whistles))).
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