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[-] TachyonTele@lemm.ee 36 points 3 days ago

You were ALWAYS able to see tweets from people that blocked you by simply logging out or using an alt account.

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?

[-] mbirth@lemmy.ml 7 points 3 days ago

Having a public (i.e. not locked) Twitđť•Ź 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.

[-] TachyonTele@lemm.ee 19 points 3 days ago* (last edited 3 days ago)

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.

[-] mbirth@lemmy.ml 3 points 2 days ago

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.

[-] Vodulas@beehaw.org 6 points 2 days ago

Twitter has DMs, plus it helps by not allowing that person to reply unless they create a new account.

[-] mbirth@lemmy.ml 2 points 2 days ago

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.

[-] JackbyDev@programming.dev 1 points 2 days ago

Yeah. It works like a Discord block basically. (Ignoring that Discord doesn't block users in group voice settings.)

[-] TachyonTele@lemm.ee 3 points 2 days ago

You do realize it's the same thing here, right?

[-] mbirth@lemmy.ml 1 points 2 days ago

Yep, that’s why I don’t get all this panicking about the Twitter change…

[-] TachyonTele@lemm.ee 2 points 2 days ago* (last edited 2 days ago)

I don't think anyone is panicking.
Most people point and laugh at Twitter.

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