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

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Post by concordDance »

boo-ga-ga wrote: post #51
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 m…

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

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Post by concordDance »

animex wrote: post #60
pavlov wrote: post #52

Earlier quoted context omitted.

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've actually started exploring other sane places of community gathering like Reddit

What sane subreddits have you found?

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

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Post by thih9 »

Hamuko wrote: post #67
thih9 wrote: post #66

Earlier quoted context omitted.

But the point is you can’t see these posts from a particular account. It makes interaction between the two accounts a bit more difficult and so a bit less likely.

But interaction between accounts is still not possible?

Yes, the article says “engagements are still not allowed under blocks”. Then again, interaction in the general sense can still happen (you can always take a screenshot and post that).

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

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Post by johnnyanmac »

boo-ga-ga wrote: post #51
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 m…

They should have had an "ignore" feature from the start, as well as block. They can post all the vile they want, I just don't want to read it.

But IME, the kind of people I want to block are the exact kinds of people that would go through all that effort to keep trying to cause drama.

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

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Post by michaelteter »

Hamuko wrote: post #67
thih9 wrote: post #66

Earlier quoted context omitted.

But the point is you can’t see these posts from a particular account. It makes interaction between the two accounts a bit more difficult and so a bit less likely.

But interaction between accounts is still not possible?

The blocked person can obviously create a new account and bypass that block to some degree, but as other have mentioned it will prevent them from reposting on their main account

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

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Post by johnnyanmac »

Ekaros wrote: post #70

Sounds entirely reasonable. You post something in public it is public. Blocking direct interaction is fine, but any expectation that other party cannot see your stuff is just insane. Only absolutely clueless or stupid should have believed that. If you don't want someone to point out your stupid takes don't make them in public.

>If you don't want someone to point out your stupid takes don't make them in public.

It's usually the other way around for me. I'd rather not have every post about some game I like devolve into a culture war.

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

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Post by johnnyanmac »

malikNF wrote: post #59
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…

>This just gets rid of the friction.

that's the issue. Look at clickthrough rates and see how much one extra click can cut down on engagement. You want to de-escalate something, or at least try to.

> 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.

I agree they should have added an ignore feature as well as block. Different approaches for each individual.

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

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Post by leftcenterright »

simion314 wrote: post #77

I am not an X user, I remember Elon making a lot of noise about bots, did Elon fixed the bot issues? Or all that noise was an attempt to get a discount.

from what I have seen, there is definitely a lot of bot/automated content. It feels totally un-moderated at times.

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

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Post by xiphias2 »

It looks like a reverse of a trend I have seen of people understading the details of selectively hiding information from others and using it for manipulation.

,,Show to group of people except X'' is manipulative behaviour (instead of kicking out the person from the group, or in this case not sharing publicly what's not public).

On instagram I have seen a lot of these things, for example posts, stories, archived stories all have different very strange behaviours that only people to take the time to understand (more manipulative people) use, which makes people more manipulative in itself.

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