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

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Post by maxlin »

IntelMiner wrote: post #348
CobrastanJorji wrote: post #341

Earlier quoted context omitted.

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

Elon actually did everything to keep X online in Brazil, even to the point of recommending people to use VPN's after the authoritarian-seeming regime in the country forcibly blocked it, and going as far as to bully SpaceX which is an entirely separate company from X.

But of course someone will say "he blocked it" the same way they say he's actually on the side of Russia in the Ukro-Russian war even with his massive out-of-pocket Starlink donations to Ukraine. War is peace, truth doesn't matter to these people I guess.

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

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Post by anonfordays »

EnigmaFlare wrote: post #221
JumpCrisscross wrote: post #81

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> repost your content to their community who also hate #foobar This is valid. I don't think it rises to the level of preventing them from seeing my public content. But perhaps a brake on their ability to repost it would be courteous.

How about if you're publicly saying things that offend a whole community, take personal responsibility for that and accept whatever offensive things they say about you in response. People have this dumb idea that everyone else should respect them for what they say in public but they have the right to disrespect others. If you can't handle that, stop saying inflammatory things to the whole world.

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

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Post by ddingus »

starspangled wrote: post #397
Seattle3503 wrote: post #344

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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.

On reddit, people use it to pretend to "win" arguments by appearing to get the last word (post a reply then immediately block).

That is what the comment edit function is for.

Or was last I used it. Maybe that has changed.

Edit parent comment to indicate the block. Add it to a few for bonus points.

Rage blocking. Is deffo a thing!

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

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Post by maxlin »

gkoberger wrote: post #126
jdminhbg wrote: post #117

Lots 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.

The simplest answer is that Elon is blocked by a lot of people, as are many people whose voices he wants heard, and believes that it goes against his flavor of "free speech". He's been unblocking himself over the years, and this feels like the next logical step for him. I think its simple... a lot of people have blocked Elon, so Elon thinks blocking is bad.

That's such a silly take I can't know if you're even serious.

Not that many important people block Elon, but even if they did, Elon could just ask the team to adjust his client / account accordingly especially if it doesn't give him any special (non-public) rights

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

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Post by gkoberger »

maxlin wrote: post #464
gkoberger wrote: post #126

Earlier quoted context omitted.

The simplest answer is that Elon is blocked by a lot of people, as are many people whose voices he wants heard, and believes that it goes against his flavor of "free speech". He's been unblocking himself over the years, and this feels like the next logical step for him. I think its simple... a lot of people have blocked Elon, so Elon thinks blocking is bad.

That's such a silly take I can't know if you're even serious. Not that many important people block Elon, but even if they did, Elon could just ask the team to adjust his client / account accordingly especially if it doesn't give him any special (non-public) rights

Sure but that’s not how he thinks.

He’s missing the ability to think about his own self in context of others. So he thinks that if he’s blocked, that’s a real problem facing everyone, so it must be fixed in the name of free speech.

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

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Post by golergka »

dtech wrote: post #336
golergka wrote: post #330

Makes perfect sense. If the blocked person would still see the post if they logged out, then it's not a real data protection, so why bother?

Twitter is no longer showing things to logged out accounts, but you can still create a separate account

It shows individual tweets, but doesn't show replies to them.

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

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Post by jdminhbg »

xeyownt wrote: post #315
jdminhbg wrote: post #156

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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.

I don't particularly care to argue about whether or not that's true, I'm just pointing out that it's not the change being discussed here, which works in the opposite direction.

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

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Post by dwoldrich »

daveguy wrote: post #453
dwoldrich wrote: post #327

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I only brought up the "Kids in Cages" meme thing because it was one of those stories my news feed did not feature at all. So I was interested in where people get those sorts of charged news items from because I'd like to learn how these operations unfold. My reaction once I understood the issue was, "what if the 'family members' of the kids were human traffickers? Maybe that was the reason for the policy change to al…

The point is they separated all kids from all families and did not track the families. Crossers suspected of human trafficking were always separated. This policy was based on the racist garbage assumption that most of the people filing through were criminals. Which is proven false. It was a humanitarian crisis in itself.

Yet the human trafficking is worse now. The human suffering is worse now for policy and political reasons. AND, there are kids in cages now. AND, that policy started under Obama.

Is the adminstration inviting more migration or is it saying "don't come"? It's a disorganized human disaster.

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

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Post by beaglesss »

troad wrote: post #428
beaglesss wrote: post #421

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Before Twitter the nazis would go to the town square of Jew filled towns and march. Americans have been dealing with this for ages and found it legally tolerable.

You're conflating two different things. You have the right to say all kinds of horrible things without fear of arrest and imprisonment. This is good. The First Amendment rocks. Skokie is good precedent. There is no logical follow-on from that that would require me to listen to, or publicise, or give equal airtime to, or care about the stupid things you say. None of that has anything to do with free speech. Most peopl…

What am I conflating? No one is required to go to Twitter. They are occasionally required to go near the town square, and they tolerate Nazis in their face even there.

I don't see something particularly novel here.

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

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Post by slowhadoken »

sunaookami wrote: post #296
slowhadoken wrote: post #236

I just want them to stem the flow of OnlyFans thots. It’s either aggressive fishing or some sad psy-op mission.

At least Community Notes help a bit by exposing their scams.

Yeah it’s still weird how normalized digital pimps are.
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