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

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Post by watt »

ksp-atlas wrote: post #69
animex wrote: post #60

Earlier quoted context omitted.

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…

Last time I remember, YouTube comments were full of spam bots talking about vile things to get attention

And would you care to document for posterity when was that last time? I think the change in YouTube comments happened some 7-8 years ago, so 2017 or so.

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

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Post by autoexec »

This is just one more example of Twitter going out of their way to work against the best interests of their users. As twitter continues to treat its userbase like a controlling/abusive spouse I hope more and more people realize that they deserve better and leave.

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

#93

Post by daghamm »

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…

"What thread has Elon lost really?"

About $42B.

I don't think X has gotten any better, if anything it is overrun by bots and crazy conspiracy theorists now. In addition, Elon has been engaging in soft-censoring people he doesn't like while amplifying those he likes.

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

#94

Post by blablabla123 »

buildbot wrote: post #48

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

Isn't there always a sidechannel in a social network?

Even if it doesn't fully block, it makes stalking etc. more annoying.

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

#95

Post by timonoko »

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…

"Somehow overnight" was when the videomaker become responsible for anything that was written under his rubric.

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

#97

Post by vfclists »

DoesntMatter22 wrote: post #15
vfclists wrote: post #13

That should be OK so long as they don't get to respond to those posts or link to them, and that should include posts they are referenced in or embedded in.

Referenced in? That is waaaay too far. That means if the person blocked you, you essentially can't talk about them.

I can't edit the original response, but I meant you shouldn't be able to make replies to threads of their retweeted posts.

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

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Post by simion314 »

JumpCrisscross wrote: post #83
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.

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

I can't google it for you, so from my memory , he complained that he was tricked by Twitter because a large number of users are bots , and then he promised that he will fix this issue after he get's the control. Probably bots and trolls are good for business since other social media like reddit are also making super easy to create tons of bot/troll accounts and spam the network.

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

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Post by JumpCrisscross »

simion314 wrote: post #98
JumpCrisscross wrote: post #83

Earlier quoted context omitted.

> all that noise was an attempt to get a discount Was he complaining about bots before he signed? Genuinely can't remember.

>Was he complaining about bots before he signed? Genuinely can't remember. I can't google it for you, so from my memory , he complained that he was tricked by Twitter because a large number of users are bots , and then he promised that he will fix this issue after he get's the control. Probably bots and trolls are good for business since other social media like reddit are also making super easy to create tons of bot/…

> he complained that he was tricked by Twitter because a large number of users are bots , and then he promised that he will fix this issue after he get's the control

How making a noise about it after the price is agreed be “an attempt to get a discount”? If anything, it was an attempt to get out of the deal.

(And if I remember correctly, the argument failed because he had been complaining about bots prior to signing. Either way, has nothing to do with discounts.)

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

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Post by recursivecaveat »

watt wrote: post #91
ksp-atlas wrote: post #69

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Last time I remember, YouTube comments were full of spam bots talking about vile things to get attention

And would you care to document for posterity when was that last time? I think the change in YouTube comments happened some 7-8 years ago, so 2017 or so.

Ironically the current spam trend is for bots to post very vague and effusive positive comments "Wow, you're such an inspiration" to try to get clicks on their profiles. I think the only real hateful bot trend was lengthy religious screeds maybe 2-3 years ago. Nowadays the religious spam is either more positive or apocalyptic I would say. There's plenty of people who post lots of hateful material, but since it's generally at least germane I assume it's at most trivially automated?
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