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

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Post by boo-ga-ga »

nicexe wrote: post #46

I always thought this was a stupid restriction. You can't view the post while authenticated but you can view the post while unauthenticated.

It might look like this, but thinking about it, I guess it's still useful in reducing unwanted interactions. People are lazy, and thus adding even a little friction can help a lot in preventing them from doing stalkering, spreading hate etc.

I.e. of course it's possible to login with another user, find the one who blocked you, make a screenshot or something and then quote it or perform any other interaction in your main account. But it's obviously not very easy.

So I'm sure it worked as a solution to reduce negative interactions on the platform. However, Musk doesn't want reducing these, his goal is spreading chaos and forcing his narratives, so the decision totally makes sense for him.

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

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Post by pavlov »

timonoko wrote: post #45

@lexfridman had it coming.

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).

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

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Post by viraptor »

nicexe wrote: post #46

I always thought this was a stupid restriction. You can't view the post while authenticated but you can view the post while unauthenticated.

It provides friction for further misbehaving. Imagine you blocked someone who has serious issues with people who #foobar. It's better for you if they can't easily find you and repost your content to their community who also hate #foobar. It's not perfect, but the friction helps prevent drive-by bad behaviour.

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

#54

Post by robertclaus »

buildbot wrote: post #48

This is technically the better option as it doesn’t indicate via sidechannel that someone has blocked you.

I assume it still blocks actions when someone tries to interact with the user, so the fact that they're blocked isn't a secret. It seems like more of a convenience feature for the person who got blocked (since they would otherwise need to log out), which is an odd direction to push a product.

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

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Post by adastra22 »

buildbot wrote: post #48

This is technically the better option as it doesn’t indicate via sidechannel that someone has blocked you.

It defeats the whole point of blocking as a safety mechanism against stalking, harassment, and mob dog piling behavior.

Once again, Elon utterly fails to understand the service he bought.

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

#56

Post by adastra22 »

robertclaus wrote: post #54
buildbot wrote: post #48

This is technically the better option as it doesn’t indicate via sidechannel that someone has blocked you.

I assume it still blocks actions when someone tries to interact with the user, so the fact that they're blocked isn't a secret. It seems like more of a convenience feature for the person who got blocked (since they would otherwise need to log out), which is an odd direction to push a product.

Logging out doesn’t work anymore. They would need to make an alt account.

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

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Post by greatgib »

JumpCrisscross wrote: post #24
greatgib wrote: post #22

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Honestly I don't think that the few "blocked" tweets where you still can't interact with is making a real difference in term of ad monetizable engagement. You will see what will come next and it will be clear. If not for AI indexation, another hypothesis is something like removing the paywall needing an account to access user content or something like that.

> don't think that the few "blocked" tweets where you still can't interact with is making a real difference in term of ad monetizable engagement Engagement scales with outrage. If there is a singular marker of outrage, it's in blocking. > not for AI indexation Why would Twitter want to help third parties train their AI on its data? Musk already has an AI venture. If there were a secret agenda around AI, it would be i…

For the AI indexation I didn't mean to help third parties read messages, more that for Musk own AI agent to be usable by the Public and able to use or reference tweets, he wouldn't need a shit storm where you use Groq to browse content that is normally blocked to you.

Regarding the other hypothesis related to the "sign in" wall, based on number it looks like that this wall is not working anymore to boost users as the number of users is collapsing. So there might be a plan to enlarge "page views" and so user engagement by reopening the Public view of tweets.

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

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Post by malikNF »

drivingmenuts wrote: post #49

It's starting to look like Xitter is asking itself "What would benefit users??" and then doing the exact opposite Or , they're trying to drive aways users. Or both. Elon has lost the thread.

What thread has Elon lost really? When Elon bought twitter there was a huge wave of people and the media telling us it was over in 6 months, when Elon fired staff they told us X would go down forever in a few months.

Under Elon imo X has gotten a lot better, I see more content that relates to me and has since found myself using X more than all the other social media platforms combined.

Blocking content makes no sense on a platform like X, if you block me and I still want to read your posts all I have to do is to make another account and read them. This just gets rid of the friction. If I block someone I just don't want to interact with them, I still want them to see me and my friends have fun.

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

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Post by animex »

pavlov wrote: post #52
timonoko wrote: post #45

@lexfridman had it coming.

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 section somehow became non-toxic overnight.
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