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BlueSky has been knocked offline by an exodus from Twitter
(www.independent.co.uk)
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Given how he constantly tries to insert himself and his opinions into everything he sees, it's clear he has no idea about how consent works, nor why people don't want him in their lives.
Rather people have no idea how blocking on 𝕏 worked/works. You were ALWAYS able to see tweets from people that blocked you by simply logging out or using an alt account.
I don’t understand all this fuss about this simple change. He only removes a useless feature that was never more than a minor inconvenience for those that got blocked.
If you don’t want people to see your tweets, lock your profile. This worked before and this still works just fine.
Well, yeah. It's a different account. That's how accounts work. Do you think one account blocking someone should result in every account blocking them too?
Having a public (i.e. not locked) Twit𝕏 account and believing you can block single people is a bit stupid to begin with.
When screaming on a market square, you can’t demand for single people to “please not listen” to what you’re screaming.
When I block someone I do not care if they see what I post. I just do not want them to be able to interact with it. I don't want to see them. I don't want their opinion. But it's fine if they want to spend their energy fuming about whatever I post. Or more likely, simply who I am.
Locking your front door won't keep someone out who really wants to get in.
Is that stupid, too?
Of course, not. But closing and locking the door doesn’t prevent the person on the other side to still listen in on your conversations…
So then we should just get rid of doors?
Well, I don't use Twitter. So that's all you.
But blocking accounts have been a thing for decades. It's not a new concept.
In closed systems like messengers, where you don’t see any content unless logged in, yes. There, it works brilliantly. But on Twitter, this is like cutting out something from a newspaper when there’s a news stand right next door.
Twitter has DMs, plus it helps by not allowing that person to reply unless they create a new account.
And it’s exactly like this now, if I understand the change correctly. They only removed the “you can’t see this post because the owner limits who can see it” thing. Blocked people still can’t reply.
Yeah. It works like a Discord block basically. (Ignoring that Discord doesn't block users in group voice settings.)
You do realize it's the same thing here, right?
Yep, that’s why I don’t get all this panicking about the Twitter change…
I don't think anyone is panicking.
Most people point and laugh at Twitter.