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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

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Post by JumpCrisscross »

viraptor wrote: post #53
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.

> 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.

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

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Post by kristopolous »

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.

A well behaved blocked person will honor the restriction but this only antagonizes the unhinged who usually have multiple accounts.

Something that less aggravates people prone to bad behavior is the right move.

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

#83

Post by JumpCrisscross »

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.

> all that noise was an attempt to get a discount

Was he complaining about bots before he signed? Genuinely can't remember.

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

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Post by Dwedit »

Good. Blocking is unidirectional, you prevent yourself from seeing the other person's posts. It should not be bidirectional, as this informs the other person that you have blocked them.

Reddit implements blocking as bidirectional, and even tells you (using coded language such as "deleted" and "unavailable") that there is a post in the thread from a person who has blocked you, and includes a permalink to that post. The permalink can be loaded in private browsing mode, and you can see the post from the person who has blocked you. (Make sure you load the Reddit front page first, otherwise Reddit assumes you're an AI harvesting spider and auto-blocks you from the site)

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

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Post by steinuil »

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.

To be fair, you can barely view any post while unauthenticated these days. Sometimes I click on a link to a tweet on my work laptop (where I'm not authenticated) and I get immediately assaulted by several pop-ups and cookie bars and redirected to the landing page when try to dismiss them.

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

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Post by bluescrn »

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.

AFAIK, you can't view any tweets unless logged in these days. But the sort of user being frequently blocked likely has multiple accounts anyway.

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

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Post by raducu »

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…

> I see more content that relates to me

Or stuff you interacted with in sort-of click bait way. That's why I'm using the block functionality so much on X. A couple of blocks a day keeps the rusobot content way. If only I could get rid of of OF girls following me or violent content in the same way, that would be great.

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

#88

Post by immibis »

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.

The latter. Bots massively increased under Elon. I don't know why anyone wants to use this dumpster fire of a site. I don't.

I guarantee this move is because too many people blocked Elon.

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

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Post by autoexec »

klntsky wrote: post #47

It makes sense. Hiding info that is available when you log in as someone else doesn't

Sure it does. Very few people are going to obsessively look over every person's twitter account using multiple logins to check and see if that account maybe posted something that is being hidden from them.
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