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Block a tweet, its author, and every single person who liked it
- chx 5y agoUse https://www.blockpartyapp.com/ https://www.blockpartyapp.com/
- sixstringtheory 5y agoWhy stop there though? For every person that liked it, it should also block anyone that follows them, or has ever liked one of their tweets. Why stop there though…
- daenz 5y agoWhat's next, a HackerNews browser extension that makes it appear (to you) that all of your comments and submissions are always upvoted to the top?
- LAC-Tech 5y agoMy posts only get greyed out when people can't handle the truth!
- warning26 5y agoAbsolutely! Furthermore, when this happens, you must always edit your comment to complain about downvotes! It's tradition.
- LAC-Tech 5y agoHNs down-voting mechanism has definitely trained me - pavlov dogs style - to only write things that people here will like most of the time. Working as intended?
- syshum 5y agoJust need to train your brain to get that dopamine hit from the down votes... Let their anger and displeasure fuel your happiness :) Hmm I wonder if that is healthy....
- kps 5y ago“Listen to the fool's reproach! It is a kingly title!” — William Blake
- LAC-Tech 5y agoTempting... but then you go too far in the opposite direction and assume people only disagree with you because they're just too dumb. I think the ideal is to take the feedback, consider it, but feel free to discard it. But at least consider that you said something dumb or didn't express it as well as you could have.
- TOMDM 5y agoI prefer to edit my comments to be far more reasonable after being down voted in ways that make the replies look unhinged /S
- zem 5y agohuh, that would be awesome, actually! would 100% improve everyone's experience of the site without any sort of collateral damage.
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- srvmshr 5y agoTwitter is a place where my blocklist length far exceeds my follow or following list. I use it only for the academic chatter. It is unfortunate that ML/Systems research has major presence on Twitter & thats happening to be high SNR.
- TOMDM 5y agoThe ML community has been so focused on recommender systems, maybe what we need is un-recommender systems. (I'm joking, it obviously has very similar perverse results)
- vishnugupta 5y agoSame here. Besides author wise block I desperately need topic wise block. For instance this Will Smith slapgate has totally screwed up my carefully curated timeline. My only option is to take a two week Twitter sabbatical and hope it dies down.
- oefrha 5y agoThis is the social graph vs interest graph problem. With an interest graph you should only see content on topics you’re interested in. With Twitter’s social graph however, which is only a poor approximation of an interest graph, once you follow someone you also get all of their political hot takes, sports and other shit you don’t care about.
- pbowyer 5y agoThat's a great framing of it. I'm a good example, interested in many things so my tweets are about multiple topics. It must drive my followers nuts. And the accounts I like to follow are focused on a single topic. I've thought about running half a dozen accounts with a focus on each, but be far easier if I could curate my output by topic and people can subscribe to only those they want (religion, ML, funny, politics, arty photography, steam trains)
- vishnugupta 5y agoIndeed! My purpose to follow someone is to get their insights into a specific topic. If they go off topic beyond my acceptable threshold (which is set to very low) I just unfollow them; the noise isn't worth it. However once in a while stuff like slap gate happens to mess up with my timeline. So sabbatical it is.
- cranx 5y agoAn alternative solution might be to leave Twitter. Talk to ppl irl. Read the news paper and I mean the paper (digital edition is acceptable too) not the website/app.
- makeitdouble 5y agoThis seems to be a prevailing view of Twitter as a newpaper replacement or for political discourse. For the sake of it, Twitter as a tool has many other uses: There's a ton of illustrators and photographers that post their work on Twitter, it's an excellent alternative to Instagram in that respect, in particular for those who don't want to deal with Facebook/Meta. Blocking an artist who's work you don't like isn't creating any nocive filter bubble, you get in exchange a timeline of nice pics that make you happy. I think a lot of people want to have political discourse and interact with the news events of the world, and desperately look for a place to do it. I'd wager any tool/platform that is chosen for that will very fast look like a cesspool of nastiness. People who feel Twitter is crushing their life should rethink what they're looking for in Twitter, and follow, I don't know, @hourlywolvesbot ?
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- bArray 5y agoYes. And to go further, discuss what you read with your friends and family: "Hey, did you hear about X? What did you think of it?". There is a high chance that at least some of these people have a different perspective, and there's a high chance some can bring a new perspective. Disagreement is fundamentally healthy, as long as all parties hold their beliefs in good faith. It's much easier to hold a bad faith discussion on the internet than in person.
- soheil 5y agoPlease don't read the news paper; it's editorialized thought vomit without a shred of skeptical empiricism. The news industry might just be the most potent industry for willfully manufacturing confirmation bias among the masses.
- hk1337 5y agoFilter bubble in 8 clicks or less.
- whatever1 5y agoAnd 11 generations of ancestors
- dredmorbius 5y agoThat must be the Spin̈al Tap version. For others, nine was enough. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nine_familial_exterminations https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nine_familial_exterminations
- thaumasiotes 5y agoNot quite: > A rare case was Fang Xiaoru (1357–1402), whose students and friends were also executed as the 10th family by the Yongle Emperor (r. 1402 – 1424), the only case where "ten exterminations" was officially sentenced and carried out.
- thimkerbell 5y agoI use a mobile phone and sometimes find that I have inadvertently Liked a tweet. But I guess such errors are moot, since anyone who is that blocky would likely end up blocking me anyway.
- nirui 5y agoOne question: does it monitors the Tweet and keeps banning new likers? I found that most people in my block list were fans of few propaganda accounts. It could be a nice addition if the service can monitor those accounts, and keep banning people who liked any Tweet posted by those accounts. I know there are side effects for doing that, but I have other ways to gather valid information and opinions so I don't really care. I rather save my time from useless and baseless online arguments (a lot of those were sent by bots), and focus on things that are really important.
- b112 5y agoThis may seem a bit crass, but I mean it honestly. Why not just leave twitter? I assure you, you will quickly realise you miss nothing.
- oneeyedpigeon 5y agoSome of us have gained work from Twitter. I can assure you, we would have missed something.
- j4yav 5y agoParts of Twitter are great. Endless US culture wars, not so much.
- nirui 5y agoBecause Twitter is one of the important way to get informed in near realtime on what's happening around the world, simply due to the size of it's user base. And this makes it useful ...before bots and mobs catches the wind too of course.
- b112 5y agoMy parents grew up, just as people started to get TV in their homes. Mostly, when very very young, they only had radio. And as they matured, so did TV. Became larger, colour emerged, audio improved, and the wonder of viewing events live, in real time, from around the world was fascinating to them. Soon, cable TV, and eventually 24 hour news appeared. I watched the news morph from a 30 minute nightly summary, to a relentless repeat of the same news over, and over again. And talking heads, opinions relentlessly speed forth, by "experts" and "analysts", just droning on, hour after hour. All basically gossiping, rehashing the same info endlessly. You, instead, have twitter. You, are in the same trap. There is nothing of value there. No in depth news. No thoughtful information. Just a relentless spew of opinion, talking heads... Decades ago, magazines abounded. What does celebrity $x think of politics today? Or, what does the CEO of Ford, think about this and that? This is the level of most of Twitter, the rest being people working (eg, fully biased) to amass follower. Once gained, via fraud, or being trendy (same thing really), they then sell their output to the highest bidder. This can be political, or commercial. Twitter makes my parents addiction to 24 news, alway on at home when I visited, seem trivial in comparison. You have been tricked, had manipulated. There is nothing of value on twitter. Nothing. If something is important, it will only be a mess of tangled garbage on twitter. You know this. You already work against twitter's addictive, and useless properties, for you attempt to remake it into something sane, and useful. But you cannot. It is designed to prevent this, designed to pull you in to the absurdities. Get out. Follow what you secretly want. Abandon twitter completely.
- frellus 5y agoPublic discourse is d-e-a-d. Whatever happened to just ignoring the things you disagreed with, or debating them? I fear we live in the stupidest timeline of The Simulation.
- ezfe 5y agoIsn't that what this is...? Ignoring the person who said it
- thelopa 5y agoI can’t speak for everyone who uses this or tools like it (in fact I don’t even use twitter, Facebook, mastodon, or any of the big social networks). However, I can understand the mentality. When the “public discourse” is crushing your mental health because it is just thinly veiled bigotry given only the slightest edge of legitimacy, I think you’re well within your rights to step away from the trolls. We shouldn’t criticize people for choosing to opt out of the hate that is thrown their way. Now, sure, some people might be overreacting in a way that undermines legitimate discourse, but it’s not fair to point at the existence of these tools as a sign of The Death Of Discourse.
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- thekashifmalik 5y agoExactly. Though to be fair I see 3 escalating levels of reaction when you come across content you don't like: - Level 1: Navigate/ignore away from the content. - Level 2: Block the person/content on the platform so you never come across it again. - Level 3: Have the person/content banned from the platform so no one ever comes across it again. At least up to level 2 (which this is) you can't stop someone else from consuming that content.
- bambax 5y agoQuitting Twitter is very easy and one of the best things I ever did. And I thought it would be hard! It really isn't.
- aldousd666 5y agoThe Network Effect, except, in reverse. Pretty soon, six degrees of kevin bacon means you'll see nothing.
- langsoul-com 5y agoAh yes, to create the mother of all bubbles. I get blocking authors, but likes seems overkill
- hda2 5y agoPrecisely! Sure, block abrasive assholes, but blocking those who follow them or like their tweets will only serve to isolate YOU from those who might be able to present their view point in a more nuanced and respectable way. I think this can be a very harmful tool if misused. I learned a lot of valuable things I wouldn't have otherwise had I used a tool like this.
- enneff 5y agoYou assume there is some interest in the viewpoint in any way whatsoever. There are vast subsets of humanity that I don’t want to hear anything from. Life is too short.
- hda2 5y agoI agree that some very small subsets aren't worthy of attention, but I don't understand how any person would willingly isolate from the views of "vast subsets of humanity". How can you be so sure you got it right? How do you check for blind spots if you don't regularly expose yourself to opposing viewpoints? I ask this because some of the best decisions I ever made were only possible after I considered the "other" side. Most of the time their views fail apart when subjected to scrutiny, but sometimes my view is the one that is found lacking. I think fuzzing viewpoints with honest dialog is crucial for a healthy society.
- JetAlone 5y agoenneff has has ennuff. The people we're talking about are degenerate reprobateſ who, without realizing it, have committed the unforgivable ſin of blasphemy againſt the Holy Spirit by liking such a poſt. They have denied their very laſt means of their repentance, by cloſing off their souls to the sight of the incorrectneſs and cruelty of the tweet in queſtion and rather caſting their lot in with the devil, as it were. But we, the enlightened, having been edified in grace and truth, exiſt in an exalted state. We are fit to judge them now, and at the time of their death. Amen. Amen. Amen.
- donatj 5y agothis kind of junk is why I find myself blocked by random people I've never had any sort of interaction with. It's at best unhealthy for you, democracy, and human understanding and at worst full on hateful.
- csee 5y agoIs this going to work on a Tweet with 1 million likes?
- pixelbreaker 5y agoJust block Twitter
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- smsm42 5y agoI found much better solution. I just reset my twitter password to a random string and threw it away. And never go to that site again. And voila - no bad tweets!
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- raffraffraff 5y agoMy wife's Twitter 2FA is on my phone and she has to ask me for it whenever she wants in. By her own choice. Actually, she only gets notifications from mutual follows and she mutes threads that get aggressive or overlong, so if someone were to instigate a pile on, they might as well be behind soundproof glass.
- user3939382 5y agoIMHO we could all use a little more humility, openness that our convictions may be wrong, openness to additional nuance in our positions, and sympathy for people with different opinions. Especially in online discourse. We don’t need tools that catalyze groupthink stratification.
- zoul 5y agoI for one could use a little less madness such as QAnon. It used to amuse me from some theoretical viewpoint, but since it has penetrated mainstream it just drains me.
- number6 5y agoMy approach was to block the tweet, the author, everyone who liked it and the whole platform on top of it, as it was a huge timesink with net negative, for me. But my viewpoint might be too extreme.
- zoul 5y agoDid the same, use Mastodon now. It cannot replace the good parts of Facebook or Twitter for me, but it’s interesting in its own way and it’s not poison.
- dspillett 5y agoAmateur. I had the sense not to join on the basis that Twitter is to full of the sort of people who like Twitter, preemptively blocking the whole lot! [I jest, a little, I know some find it useful, but I don't feel I've missed anything of significance by staying away from that particular "information" channel]
- netsharc 5y agoI wonder what would happen if I literally block every username on Twitter... Their database will probably not like it.
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- mastazi 5y agoImagine if there was an announcement of a new product that removes a small subset of all the unhealthy substances that are present in cigarettes. Wouldn't your first reaction be "maybe just quit smoking instead"? And yet we almost never say that about social media, despite the fact that, like cigarettes, social media services are engineered to be addictive, while disregarding any health impact they may cause.
- notreallyserio 5y agoFolks suggest quitting social media all the time, to the point it became part of a meme (quit Facebook join a gym etc).
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- Solvitieg 5y agoThis is very apt coming from Mike Solana. I quite like him but he blocked me for some reason. I'm a literal nobody with 5 followers. I never flame and I discuss in good faith. My guess is he's too trigger happy with blocking. I'm sure it works well for him, but blocking people strongly enforces your own echo chamber. This makes you weaker to critiques, which is an incredibly valuable form of feedback.
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- raziel2p 5y agoconsider that Twitter is not an appropriate platform to receive critique. many people might simply not want to use it that way. I don't know who Mike Solana is, maybe he's also bad at taking feedback in real life, but still.
- avhception 5y agoWhile you may be right that Twitter is not an appropriate platform to receive critique, consider that it might be unhealthy if we build a major avenue of society-level communication that is not an appropriate place for critique.
- robertlagrant 5y ago> consider that Twitter is not an appropriate platform to receive critique. many people might simply not want to use it that way What makes this forum appropriate?
- klodolph 5y agoCritiques are nice, critiques from complete strangers on the internet are rarely helpful and often unwanted.
- Solvitieg 5y agoHmm sure, if this is the intent one could disable or not read the comments. Blocking people seems like an emotional response.
- wly_cdgr 5y agoThis is something that you should not be able to do
- pwdisswordfish9 5y agoEven better: block Twitter itself.
- ksajadi 5y agoYou don’t a tool for that. Just stick your index fingers in your ears, shake your head left to right and back and say “la la la la la”
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- sfmike 5y agoCan we get the opposite? Find what's been shadowbanned and blocked so we can see what's important enough to nullify.
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- klodolph 5y agoSeems like the people commenting on HN overwhelmingly aren’t active on Twitter for various reasons. That’s fine. If you’re not active on Twitter it might not occur to you the various reasons why this tool exists. HN is, itself, a garden. Twitter is more than three orders of magnitude larger, just going by user count. The comments on HN are kind of safe and predictable most of the time. Shitty comments on HN get downvoted, flagged, or just left at the bottom of the pile, because everyone on HN sees the same version of HN (mostly). On Twitter, if someone is shitty, they can still rack up a massive follower count of similarly shitty followers. Just imagine some dumb [flagged] [dead] comment on HN, and then imagine that the author has 800,000 followers who just love the dumb shit that this author writes. That’s Twitter for you. Hacker News is curated by the community and voting. Twitter is curated partly by that but also by following, blocking, and muting. Muting silences somebody so you don’t see their tweets any more. Blocking is stronger—it blocks them from seeing your tweets too, unless they sign out. The point is to make it so that the aforementioned jerk with 800k followers is much less likely to see your tweets, much less likely to harass you. You can’t use “the community” to curate Twitter because Twitter is too large. By necessity, it comprises many communities. There are people on Twitter who have built a following of rowdy users and egg them on. Sometimes it crosses a line and they get banned, but if you have 800k rowdy jerks following you, you don’t need to do much more than disagree with someone on Twitter to sic your fanbase against them. Blocking the entire group means they don’t see your tweets, they don’t forward your tweets to their friends and tag that walking timebomb with 800k followers. There are a few topics that attract the most abuse, and if you don’t follow those topics on Twitter or if they’re not a big part of your life, you won’t see some of the worst parts of Twitter that this is designed to address. Think politics, trans issues / terfs, race, Marvel movies, feminism, etc. Better that you have the tools to control your own interaction on Twitter than these tools are centralized.
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- eftychis 5y agoI would say this is an anti-pattern: building false communication and a bubble around you, assuming people liking or keeping track of a tweet or even the writers of a disliked tweet have nothing to offer you. "If you do not understand why your neighbour is upset, how are you to notice the neighbourhood fire?" That is the antithesis of dialogue, freedom of speech, a disservice to yourself and democracy. P.S. If someone is harassing you or disturbs you take appropriate steps (per case) -- this path is a long-term disservice to everyone.
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- DixieDev 5y agoNot everyone uses social media to watch anonymous users screeching their opinions at each other. It is a nice tool to cut down on encountering content you don't necessarily care for.
- alkonaut 5y agoThis is always going to be the argument against anything like this, and of course it should be used with caution. Then again, my life is too short to be dealing with (say) bots, literal nazis etc. While their opinions may be interesting occasionally, it's not always worth the energy expended on some people. > the antithesis of dialogue Yes, perhaps > , freedom of speech, No absolutely not. Not in any interpretation of "freedom of speech" is individuals choosing not to listen to other indivuduals the antithesis of freedom of speech.
- eftychis 5y ago>> , freedom of speech, > No absolutely not. Not in any interpretation of "freedom of speech" is individuals choosing not to listen to other indivuduals the antithesis of freedom of speech. How long do you think it will take for shared block lists to appear or for people to block people of other parties (e.g. Republicans blocking Democrats and vice-versa)? A bubble then or an algorithm has effectively banned a set of people from reaching another set of people. I agree in the U.S. legal sense, the liberty of freedom of speech is not applicable, as it is a negative right, a liberty that is, that is to not be infringed solely by the government. Twitter or people are not involved parties. However: a) It is against the whole goal of free speech for me to decide that e.g. a friend of mine or a stranger should not listen to this "noise." (It could be in fact noise, the quotes are here as it is regardless a subjective claim.) b) And a level further, using this tool, we are banning someone that might have partially agreed with some disliked news or statement but never heard their position. The whole point of freedom of speech is to allow dialogue. Our future selves never have the chance to write to the people we just blocked. (Or hear them.) Your past self just self censored your future self.
- avnigo 5y agoAnd like nukes, make sure you know what using it does, and where to use it. There may be cases for this, but it's really easy to end up in one giant echo chamber if this is used overzealously.
- sascha_sl 5y agoI want my personal account to be an "echo chamber" (or rather, devoid of the culture war I have been conscribed to the front of), simply because I don't go on Twitter to argue. Being trans sometimes also turns these tools into safety mechanisms to combat harassment.
- ImaCake 5y agoThis is a good way to put it. Twitter has a nasty habit of pushing politics on your feed no matter how many times you tell it not to. Digital nukes to clean up silicon valley's BS seems appropiate to wrest back some control. I can think and discuss politics on better platforms where the conversation works better. Twitter is too brief, useful for bird pics and science annoucements. Not for nuanced political essays.
- cbozeman 5y ago"Twitter" doesn't do that, that's what Twitter is. It's become a platform for elites to virtue signal and everyone else will rally around that, be it virtue signaling from the left of the political spectrum, or the right. It stopped being about whatever it was supposed to be used for once journalists at so-called "elite" institutions swarmed to the platform.
- pjc50 5y agoIndeed. It's not an "echo chamber" if it's just the set of people who don't think you shouldn't exist. (I see this has attracted a downvote from someone trying to make their own echo chamber)
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- TedShiller 5y agoThis is great for people who hate free speech
- tuckerman 5y agoDo you feel similarly about spam filters? I don’t think everyone needs the full spectrum of opinions being played at them 24/7, sometimes it’s nice just to use a platform like Twitter to converse with friends.
- mellosouls 5y agoThat sounds very much like an echo chamber, you know.
- tuckerman 5y agoIf someone wants to use Twitter to have purely technical/academic related discussions but gets attacked periodically by a few people strangely fascinated by the British royal family, I don’t think they need to justify wanting a little respite. Does that make it an echo chamber? Maybe depending on someone’s definition it does, but then I would argue an echo chamber isn’t always bad and can sometimes be good.
- lloydatkinson 5y agoHow about a version that has certain flags in bios or names? And no I don’t mean Ukraine flags but other, toxic, culture ones.
- bluescrn 5y agoAlternatively, just stop using Twitter
- rejor121 5y agoIm a fan of this. Never used it and don’t see why I would ever need to
- gitowiec 5y agoIsn't it a cancel culture in it's essence?
- 0dayz 5y agoThis will a good way to avoid reading tweets from those "communities" that are kinda .
- xurukefi 5y agoAs somebody who doesn't use Twitter actively, I don't understand why you would ever want to block someone. If you're sick of someone, why not just mute them? Blocking seems to be kind of a childish option because you want the other person to know that they are blocked. The idea that you want to actively disable someone from reading your tweets seems absolutely bananas to me.
- detaro 5y agoIf someone is harassing you on Twitter, muting them doesn't stop them from interacting with your tweets. You don't see it anymore, but people looking at your tweets still do, so now people see things attached to your tweets you have no idea about. Some also argue that its better someone is explicitly told "you can't interact with this person" vs them trying and it getting hidden silently and them having no idea they can't reach you that way, and thus suggest blocking over mute also for people who didn't attack you. (A "don't show this person unless they directly talk to me" would be nice to have instead)
- playpause 5y agoThis is something that took me years to grok about Twitter. Each tweet creates a forum that is solely moderated by the tweeter. Mod powers include blocking people (which removes all their replies from the forum and from any other forum you create in future, as well as blocks them from seeing your tweets), and locking the whole forum (making it read-only except for named people).
- xurukefi 5y agoBlocking somebody who is harassing you seems to be a very bad idea. You're actively telling them that they're blocked. They can create a new account to work around this. Muting is much more efficient because it does not give any feedback and thus does not provoke any further escalation.
- detaro 5y agoDepends on the situation. E.g. many probably rather know if lies are spread about them in the replies, even if it means dealing with new accounts popping up.
- RickJWagner 5y agoWhat a fantastic way to turbo-charge confirmation bias.
- ordiel 5y agoHurray for open dialog!!!
- ladyattis 5y agoPeople lamenting this tool for making echo chambers don't really grasp that in practice people already actively filter out what they don't agree with. This just makes that process explicit. If you think for example someone who's an ardent Catholic is going to listen or even accept my views as a Valentinian Gnostic as valid then you really don't know how folks work. Heck, there's people will argue blue in the face a given sports team is the best even if they've never made it to their conference's playoffs in five years. To twist the phrase from Ben Shapiro (whom I find to be repugnant but that's neither here or there): feelings (or sentiments) don't care about your facts.
- EricE 5y agoThe act of filtering still exposes you a little. Using tech to wholesale blackhole "wrongthink" is probably one of the worst aspects of social media. Frankly I think terms like "bubble" dramatically trivialize just how dangerous this kind of myopia is.
- stjohnswarts 5y agoPlease shoot me if I ever become this shallow minded or tribalist.
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- fargle 5y agoStep #1, sign up for twitter. Step #2, get offended... whoops. took care of this at step #0. Have a nice night, y'all. Problem solved.
- coldblues 5y agoI don't see a privacy policy anywhere on the website. Please add one.
- tormock 5y agoSounds like a good way to be in an echo chamber really quickly.
- blockwriter 5y agoYeah, can we get the corollary that follows the people who disagree with the blocked parties but that has the same political alignment as the blocked party?
- aaron695 5y agoThat would be amazing if it was true. How great would it be to separate off the mediocrity who think every conversation has to be about their amazing take on CO2 and their envro cult links on Wikipedia to Jevons paradox and the precautionary principle. Why would I want their take on the latest version of PHP? It'd be great to be in a chamber of accelerated ideas where they stick. Nothing echoes on HN for instance. It's an interesting experiment, if people used it. I think the unforgiveness is the problem. People should be able to make some mistakes. This might output middle ground ideas or might create a 'like'-less subculture.
- noizejoy 5y ago> I think the unforgiveness is the problem. People should be able to make some mistakes. Wholeheartedly agreed - the “Internet never forgets” is a related problem, although I've also seen some apparent “forgetting” over years. Accordingly I liberally use a timed “ignore” function on some forums I participate in. So I can block people for a while, in the hope that their posting misbehaviour is lack of experience and/or just having a bad moment in life.
- BugWatch 5y agoI'm certain I'll be fine, and survive without flat Earthers, 5G-causes-COVID, and similar ilk. That's a critical lack of, ironically, critical thinking skills in windmill-type people that this Don Quixote instance considers not worth time nor nerves fighting with nor for.
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- saddist0 5y agoEagerly waiting for the LinkedIn version to clean up my timeline.
- jader201 5y agoI honestly don’t know that many people that still use LinkedIn. I have an account, and most people I know have an account, but I’m not aware of any of them actively using it. Seems like it’s mostly there for when you need to reach out to folks if you’re looking for a job. I actually stopped logging in and sending/accepting connections not long after I started my current job (8 years ago).
- thethimble 5y agoIt’s used pretty commonly if you’re a hiring manager or if you regularly interview people. It’s much more convenient than looking at resumes because of its standardized format.
- hbarka 5y agoWhy is it that when you reply to recruiters their first request is to send them a copy of your resume?
- Gareth321 5y agoI use it strictly for job hunting. I receive a lot of offers there and it's a great way to contact recruiters. That was its premise, but they've been working hard to turn it into a social platform.
- dartharva 5y agoI have already given up on LinkedIn as a social network. My profile only exists as a public resume for recruiters and peers to see, I never interact with anything on the site except to update my profile and check my privacy settings.
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- throwmeariver1 5y agoIt doesn’t matter every time I block something on twitter they take it as an invite to throw every iteration of it in my suggested tweets…
- bogota 5y agoYouTube is the worst offender. I block and thumbs down the author… which of course means please recommend me every video they ever made. Youtube seems ripe for someone else to come and take a large part of the market if video storage wasn’t so expensive to enter into.
- drdeca 5y agoOn the recommendation (without clicking the video), click the 3 dots, click not interested, click the button to say why, click not interested in this channel. This usually stops the channel from being recommended? You can also go into your viewing history and remove videos that you don’t want recommendations based on.
- philliphaydon 5y agoIve used dozens of times on video recommendations for Louis rossman, and Fox News, the “not interested in this channel” button, and I still get recommendations. I’m not convinced that button does anything.
- SV_BubbleTime 5y ago> Louis rossman Disappeared off my feed. No idea what he’s doing anymore, probably still using too much flux.
- cyphar 5y agoThis doesn't work for news channels. It is impossible to watch any non-MSM channel mentioning the news without the next recommended video being one of the major American news channels. The only solution is to use browser extensions which can actually block channels properly.
- polemic 5y agoAnother good option: https://secateur.app/ https://secateur.app/
- hamiltonians 5y agoi am sure this can be done client side such as with redblock extension
- Apreche 5y agoCan we get something like this that doesn't involve giving Twitter OAuth to some unknown third party?
- paxys 5y agoIt's either that or a browser extension which is even more dangerous.
- TobyTheDog123 5y agoAt least with a browser extension you can audit the source code yourself (and know that the source is what you're installing) - with a 3rd party OAuth app you can never be sure. That being said I don't think this app is going to do anything malicious.
- Jerry2 5y ago>At least with a browser extension you can audit the source code yourself Well, often this is not easy. I've tried to audit some extensions recently but a vast majority of non-open-source extensions are minified and heavily obfuscated. Unless you invest a lot of time, it's not easy to audit the code these days.
- anamexis 5y agoI suppose there is a middle ground where it spits out a curl request (or something) that you could inspect and then insert your own API key into
- dleslie 5y agoTwitter is an outrage factory; almost everything about its design lends itself towards engagement via accelerating conflict. I foresee that this sort of tool would encourage conflict within smaller communities that adopt its use, or cause them to evaporate in a flurry of mass blocking.
- bee_rider 5y agoI don't see how it could. If you use this in a community, on a post that lots of people liked, you've essentially booted yourself. If enough people boot themselves from a community that it becomes too small to be viable... I dunno, maybe the world is better off without that community.
- xupybd 5y agoBlocking people is a great way to avoid conflict. It's much better than the platform kicking people off.
- DaiPlusPlus 5y ago> Blocking people is a great way to avoid conflict. Until you get subtweeted by people who see you blocked them.
- Jcowell 5y agoWhat’s the difference of people behind your back in real life? Either way you aren’t going to immediately know.
- TobyTheDog123 5y agoI don't really understand what's so terrible about that. You could always block them too? It doesn't go on infinitely.
- andbberger 5y agoeh twitter is fine if you're careful about who you follow
- branon 5y agoWhy even bother using Twitter at that point? This seems wrong somehow. Turn off the computer and go outside. Usually I don't make comments like this but come on. Seriously? If one genuinely feels as though they need this level of advanced machinery to survive the apparently harrowing experience of using Twitter, they may choose to reevaluate their habits.
- vehemenz 5y agoYou're implying Twitter is worth using at *this* point. Removing the irredeemable 20% from our collective feeds might actually make a Twitter a more positive place and worth using again.
- ryanSrich 5y agoSilicon Valley elite VCs (like Mike Solana - the guy who requested this feature) are terminally online. They have opulent wealth, but spend their day glued to a phone. I suppose that’s a sign of a true addiction. When you could be doing almost anything else, and yet you spend time on an app that embodies pure hell.
- TobyTheDog123 5y agoI don't see an issue with it, it's a decent tool for curating who you see and interact with on the already-toxic platform. Twitter has its purpose, deep deep below the miles of garbage.
- jsmeaton 5y agoYou can't think of a single good use case for a tool like this? Consider receiving a bunch of hate-tweets based on some physical aspect of your appearance.
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- ilammy 5y agoIt's a natural tool in a digital world. IRL you can literally walk away from a conversation to express your disgust and disinterest in argument in a low-effort manner. On Twitter you can't make the same gesture, so an analogous low-effort measure is to stop listening. It would not be nice to block people like that IRL, but it's a different thing on the internet where millions of people and their cats can easily waste your time.
- rubyist5eva 5y agoI was on Twitter for about 3 weeks and then I just so exhausted from it I just deleted it. I feel so much better for it.
- hdjjhhvvhga 5y agoThe name of the project is all wrong, it should be called Megabubble.
- ipsin 5y agoYou'll always get voices from outside the bubble... even if they come in the form of people in your bubble dunking on the dumbest takes from outside it.
- bombcar 5y agoI wonder at what point the blocklist would surpass twitters storage mechanism for it. Can you block every single Twitter account?
- caseysoftware 5y agoThis made me curious and I wondered how it might work... The simplest approach would be to start from user id 1 and increment up blocking each one but then you'd block millions of inactive, dead, or suspended accounts which would probably get you suspended. A better approach may be to choose a "recent" tweet id, block the author, count up from there, checking if each author is blocked and blocking if they're not. The best part is that you don't even need to know the author when you make a request. For example, tweet id 1508540042817376256 is Elon's and it resolves to him whether you use https://twitter.com/elonmusk/status/1508540042817376256 https://twitter.com/elonmusk/status/1508540042817376256 or https://twitter.com/Microsoft/status/1508540042817376256 https://twitter.com/Microsoft/status/1508540042817376256 This is no longer blocking "every single Twitter account" but blocking "every single active Twitter account" but may still be able to trigger whatever limits.
- ryanSrich 5y agoI’ve seen people on Twitter brag about having 6 figures blocked. So it at least works for that many. I know Marc Andreessen notoriously has a lot of people blocked. I wonder if it’s in the millions.
- 5560675260 5y agoWhenever I see this I wonder how much overhead blocking as a feature generates for twitter.
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- dwaltrip 5y agoIf someone spent 5 hours a day on twitter, and blocked a new person every 5 minutes... then after 4.5 years of doing this every single day, they would reach 100,000 people blocked.
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- fsckboy 5y agoi need metablock.xyz, a tool that blocks all the people who use this tool
- thinkingemote 5y agoI know this is a (sort of) joke but does any know if it is technically possible?
- 1337biz 5y agonext step: the metametablock, a tool that blocks all the people who block the people who use this tool.
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- noizejoy 5y agoAnd then I’d love a game-of-life style visual simulation of the effect of both kinds of blocks. Will the Twitterverse split in two? Into n? Will everyone end up in their own Twitterverse of 1? Will Twitter implode with blocking taking all the resources away from tweeting?
- pjc50 5y ago> Will the Twitterverse split in two? Into n? This happens periodically with things like "menshn", "gab", "truth social". The problem is that Twitter functions as a PVP MMO: the wolves want prey, but nobody wants to be prey, so when they get isolated off into a hardcore PVP server it stops being fun for them.
- fsckboy 5y agothat game of life thing sounds pretty good, I'd like to watch any type of internet virality, ratio-ing, cancellation, etc. that way
- pfarrell 5y agoWhat if I’m not shadowbanned but the only person who isn’t?!?
- randallsquared 5y agoA lot of people seem to "like" tweets for reasons other than liking the tweet.
- darknavi 5y agoVery similar to upvoting on reddit.
- __float 5y agoLike what? It's become a semi-public endorsement in some ways, at this point -- Twitter frequently recommends tweets in the feed because someone you follow liked it. If you use Twitter, you probably know that. So, liking a tweet is not very similar to up-or down-voting on Reddit or HN, which is private.
- agilob 5y agoI very often like/share/upvote comments just to promote stupidity of the author. My followers are fully aware that I like something stupid for the lulz, not to promote it. If author of a stupid comment thinks they're being liked, that's even better for the lulz.
- boomboomsubban 5y agoI don't use twitter, but on both reddit and here I'd estimate around ten percent of my voting is misclicking. Phones make it too easy to accidentally press a button.
- bluescrn 5y agoIf you can't avoid social media entirely, avoid using it on a touchscreen device. A accidental fat-fingered like/retweet on the wrong post isn't just embarassing, these days it has the potential to have serious consequences.
- randallsquared 5y agoBookmarking for another platform or another time. Some twitter interfaces have a bookmark affordance and some do not (the web doesn't, at least in my cohort). These alternative uses is why people say often in their bio that "likes" do not imply endorsement, but it's so common to say that that I didn't even mention it on my bio, though of course it's still the case.
- nikolay 5y agoMutual assured social media destruction ICBM.
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- Bjorkbat 5y agoI can't help but feel like this could really make a mess of things. What I think would be nice is if there we tools that better allowed us to create "social gardens" on platforms like Twitter, platforms that allowed us to better cultivate the topics we care about while allowing us to keep out some stray topic from someone who we otherwise follow because of something entirely different. There is of course the argument that this could lead to even worse echo chambers, but for me the more pressing concern is preserving my mental health and disengaging entirely from the political conversation. Doesn't matter what side of the aisle they're on, Twitter pundits are unhinged and I want to stay out of the twisted world they inhabit. Meanwhile, I find that Twitter is actually a really useful platform if you carefully curate the people you follow. There are some powerful ideas if you know where to look. Ah, but who am I kidding, people would much rather possess a nuke than a garden.
- blondin 5y agosocial gardens, like what google+ could have been. but greed and internal team politics led to the demise of the project. and this is an outsider's remark by the way. greed because google+ was chasing after an ever increasing monthly active users. internal team politics because of spamming. it made no sense, to me at least, that the same company that gave us gmail could not deal with spamming on google+. spamming has also become rampant on youtube as well. so yeah, google has been there and abandoned the idea.
- SamBam 5y agoI agree. A while ago a deleted an old profile I had that followed a number of political and/or hot-take types, which were addictive but never left me feeling happy. With my new account, I follow only makers, artists, engineers and software people. I don't mind if those people very occasionally post something political, but if they do it too often I unfollow. Nothing personal, I just want my Twitter experience to be a happy and inspiring place. Now, what if one of those people liked some post that I don't think people Ought to like? Should I ban them by association, even though I previously enjoyed their creative content? (I guess this is moot -- a person who follows based on their interests rather than their political echo-chamber wouldn't use this tool.)
- denkmoon 5y agoIf you need to use this type of tool, perhaps just don't use twitter at all.
- amanzi 5y agoThis is the correct approach.
- tomatowurst 5y agoha! I was going to say the same thing, in fact I think that blocking people just ends up giving them the satisfaction that they had this power over you but also could serve as a powerful signal to twitter users with lot of followers. Twitter does to a certain degree do a good job of hiding replies under 'show more replies' I get the feeling that people with 5 digit and up followers do not click it, if they do, most do not go out of their way to block people.
- viraptor 5y ago> I think that blocking people just ends up giving them the satisfaction that they had this power over you I think you're overthinking it. Unless you're a known person who interacted with them meaningfully before, they won't even know you blocked them. If you're just blocking to clean your timeline, you're the only one who will see the effects.
- csee 5y agoStrict curation is the key to Twitter usage. Otherwise it's just an avalanche of crap.
- allenu 5y agoEven then, Twitter is finding more ways to shove "More Tweets" at you. I remember back in the day you'd expand a tweet and just see it and the responses, but now you immediately get "more tweets" below it that have nothing to do with what you're reading.
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- ibejoeb 5y agoImposing one's own hellban...
- yjftsjthsd-h 5y agoExcept it's only for you.
- ibejoeb 5y agoCertainly. But once you block enough of the people that you interact with, your bubble gets pretty small. Not passing judgement on the project. I, like others here, just think there are limited benefits at that level.
- yjftsjthsd-h 5y agoSure; I'm not offering any value judgement or commenting on bubbling, I'm only pointing out that it cannot by definition be a "hellban" when it only prevents one person from seeing the blocked thing(s).
- ibejoeb 5y agoIt's a little bit different, but you see what I'm saying, right? If you block scads of people by network association, you're going to stop seeing replies. You'll be shouting into the void, unable to see any response associated with your actions. That is, effectively, a hellban. Maybe some people want a one-way street; that's fine.
- nevi-me 5y agoI sometimes manually do this when I'm feeling petty, or when a tweet is so offensive that in real life, I'd disassociate with people who endorse it. Good to have a tool. I just tried it on a spam tweet, and only the author got blocked. Maybe other users get put in a queue or the service is close to Twitter limits. Probably still good to create my own block function (and hope Twitter doesn't ban the API use). Reminder: Probably best to revoke the app's permission when done.
- adastra22 5y agoThe little heart button isn’t endorsement though. Lots of people use it as a bookmarking tool, or as a stochastic retweet button.
- sedatk 5y agoIt's endorsement as much RT is, as Twitter puts tweets liked by people you follow on your timeline. It serves as an amplification tool, not just personal interaction.
- adastra22 5y agoNot all people use the Twitter interface. I used Tweetbot for years and "like" has no effect in that app, as it has no algorithmic feed. Since there is no way to bookmark a tweet from that app, that's what I used the "like" button for. I'm not the only one either. Lots of people use Twitter this way, whether the Twitter devs intended for it to be used this way or not.
- sedatk 5y ago> Not all people use the Twitter interface If I had to make a guess, I'd say the overwhelming majority does, and the number of third-party client users is negligible.
- porker 5y agoUntil Twitter has an API to get the tweets I bookmark, this is exactly how I use the like button.
- falcolas 5y agoSpicy take: lots of folks use it once, on a tweet from Elon Musk. Twitter would explode. Either from the blocklist explosion, or the outrage whiplash.
- rektide 5y agoIt'd be great if there was a record of how/why people were blocked on twitter. Fingering megablock & the originating tweet would be great context to know. Personally I also think this kind of activity should itself be an optional part of our timelines, that we should be able to publicly or privately do these actions, as we see fit. Moderation is all individual right now, blocks are private activities, and starting to stake ourselves in, make our personal moderations part of the public discourse seems like a necessary next jump. At this point I don't think anyone ever reviews their moderations, who they block. But I want to see a path for social media to eventually become a little more redemptive, where we a couple years down the road we might possibly be willing to try again. Structurally, right now, the whole moderation system is opaque as fuck, there's no real trace of what happened, there's no ability to reconsider at all. It's weird having a big log of shared internet history where the most important factors are not logged, have no record. I don't think twitter is an echo chamber. I think it's badass & wide ranging & we engage in huge wild globe-spanning conversation in the exact opposite of echo chambers. But I do think it's cruel & merciless & that these proprietary social networks are cold & hard structurally, & that they refuse to allow a more real story & more real engagement & accounting to happen, systematically. They keep an amazing record, but also are radical extremists blowing up some of the most important parts of the record, deny much of the most core & vital history they create. Moderation should have the option to be part of the network: right now that is blanketly denied.
- Bedon292 5y agoIts definitely interesting to consider something like that. Stats as to why might be cool, but odds are nothing is going to change my mind. I am actually more curious about how many users on my list end up getting banned for being bots eventually. There used to be a tool I think called something like block with me, where you could follow other users block lists. Although I can't seem to find it any more. Options like that would certainly be interesting. But Twitter isn't incentivized to do something like that.
- LAC-Tech 5y agoTwitter is just a nasty place. At first I thought I would just ignore people who made me want to argue. But then twitter had to remind me what the trending hashtags were, and they were enough to make me facepalm. It's a shame, because there's quite a few technologists who do cool shit that talk on twitter. But I'm just over being in an environment where overly sensitive people vomit their ill thought out political opinions at me.
- zamadatix 5y agoNitter is everything I wished Twitter was. Well except the upcoming support for following folks. Viewing the same profile in each is like viewing 2 completely different platforms with how different the displayed content is.
- tonguez 5y agonitter is just the same censorship and rage. you still have to click Load More 100 times to read the full 3% of opinions that were not completely censored. it’s a place for stupid people to go and say things like “I support Will Smith” and pretend they are an internet celebrity
- zamadatix 5y agoNitter has an autoload option, it's not enabled by default because it requires JS and it doesn't want to assume JS but once ticked it works fine. In regards to celebrity gossip and such I guess it depends who you follow. With Nitter if you only associate with people that simply don't partake in those kind of discussions you won't see such discussions. On Twitter it's hell bent on trying to show you what is popular instead of what you asked to see so the same is not true.
- rvz 5y agoDo not engage at all. The only way to win is to not play the game in the first place. Let them fight it out in their echo-chambers. They will get bored really soon and realize that there is more to life than screaming and banning each other in the blue bird site. Some things just need to be ignored and left alone. The outrage that is happening on the blue bird site is one of them. It is not worth it.
- walterbell 5y agoPrivate/local alternatives: Twitter lists, mute and bookmarks. Client-side kill switches have existed since Usenet, if not earlier.
- CountSessine 5y agoJust in time for the culture wars!
- TeeMassive 5y ago"Build your own ideological bubble! Don't let anyone tell you radicalization is wrong!"
- SV_BubbleTime 5y agoIt’s a good point. That anyone intentionally moving to block all dissenting voices always considers the other people to be the radical ones.
- atum47 5y ago...set their house of fire and salt the earth. Joke aside, I can see where this project come from. So, as others have suggested, I don't have a Twitter account anymore.
- flenserboy 5y agoBlocking those who like a tweet seems excessive. Plenty of bad hits — people who use likes as bookmarks, etc. What would be really nice is to be able to group block by profile content, or if they were simultaneously followed by five accounts of your choosing. Some fine-grained blocking like that would be nice; it would also be nice if muted words & phrases would also apply to search results — I've seen too many sneak through, especially when attached to hashtags.
- davidmurdoch 5y agoYeah, mass blocking people only creates more isolated filter bubbles for everyone involved. Seems like a great way to create an echo chamber though. Edit: wait, why the downvotes?
- _teyd 5y agoDepends on who you are blocking. If it's anyone who slightly disagrees with you and anyone who likes them, then you'll probably quickly end up blocking literally everyone. But if it's people who are off-topic replying that Bill Gates is inserting microchips in vaccines, flat earther, or other Qanon style posts and those who upvote them, I don't really personally mind the loss.
- ramesh31 5y agoNah. The SnR of Twitter is absolutely abysmal. The only way you can possibly use it effectively is to accept that there will be false positives caused by your filtering heuristics.
- adastra22 5y agoPrune the people you follow and don’t use the algo feed. My Twitter feed is very high SNR.
- unlaxedneurotic 5y agoI too disabled the default "Recommended by Twitter" feed and instead chose to view only tweets by accounts I follow in a chronological order. Absolutely no political stuff. This resulted in a very pleasant twitter experience.
- matrix12 5y agoThis does not seem like it will end well.
- ImaCake 5y agoWhat does this even mean? Are you responding to the link?
- shitlord 5y agoI agree, but this isn't exactly a novel concept. Mass block lists have received media coverage in the past: https://slate.com/technology/2015/08/twitter-blocklists-they-can-stop-harassment-and-they-can-create-entirely-new-problems.html https://slate.com/technology/2015/08/twitter-blocklists-they...
- civilized 5y agoOr instead of blocking you could give each person a strike, repeat for a sample of 100 hated tweets, and then block the people with more than N strikes. Basically put the power of The Algorithm into the hands of the people.
- Bedon292 5y agoI do like that idea. Less false positives on the real people, and more likely to find those bot armies.
- luxuryballs 5y agoThis is way cooler than the ‘famous person I don’t know’ sarcastic blog post I was expecting from the headline!
- UberFly 5y agoThe only time I visit twitter is when a link to something there is posted from elsewhere. That level of focused twitter activity is just about right. Hanging out there I think I'd quickly drown in the noise.
- DarkmSparks 5y agoThen it turns out you were wrong but you never know because you were stuck inside your cope bubble like some Japanese soldier in a remote island bunker thinking WWII was still going 30 years after it finished. You block me because I block you and next thing you know pacifists are cheering on neo nazis and greenies are begging for cheaper gas and oil. Free speech is important because true speech stands up to scrutiny and lies do not. Therefore only liars want to curtail free speech.
- floodyberry- 5y agoGood news, you now have to read every tweet made on Twitter or you're against free speech!
- akerl_ 5y agoFree speech is important. It also has nothing to do with me letting other people take up screen space on my monitor. Blocking people from my Twitter account isn’t curtailing their free speech.
- systemvoltage 5y agoBlock nasty people. Blocking other people prevents you from exposure to other ideas than your own. The only person that loses is you. Probably feels good and comfy in nicely resonant echo chamber though. I block nasty people regardless of which echo chamber they belong to.
- akerl_ 5y agoI’m happy to engage in discussion with people whose opinions differ from my own. I’m also happy to carve out portions of my time and interaction where I’m not doing that. It’s totally possible and healthy to not always invite the full firehose of possible human discourse into my brain. And there’s always the part where Twitter is actively a horrible place for any kind of constructive conversation due to the character limit and the overwhelming desire of most participants to generate the most clicks/outrage possible.
- peepop6 5y agoTwitter will suffer the same fate as Facebook i.e. the platform is so cancerous that younger or more intelligent people leave it. Not sure where they'll go since Reddit is just as bad these days if not worse in many ways.
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- wutbrodo 5y agoYoung people didn't leave Facebook because it was cancerous. They left it because it was boring. The "cancerousness" on Twitter isn't even skewed older: if anything it's skewed younger.
- mdoms 5y agoI'm liberal with the block button but this is a bridge much too far for me. I don't want to entrench myself into an agreeable little bubble.
- causality0 5y agoI'm not a Twitter user but it's bizarre that it doesn't have even the most rudimentary form of proactive user control. Why is there no settings page where I can punch in a bunch of words or phrases to blacklist?
- tomc1985 5y agoYet another way to suppress expression that one doesn't like. This is not how the world should be.
- reincarnate0x14 5y agoWhat do you expect when dealing with an environment as deliberately toxic as Twitter, with millions of bots fake-networking all over the place to be later used to generate fake hype or fake support, and the engagement schemes optimized for three minute hates.
- bluescrn 5y agoAt times it goes beyond suppressing objectionable ideas and into the outright denial of reality. If you silence all opposing ideas, you can start to believe things that appear quite ridiculous to those exposed to a wider spectrum of thought.
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- eek2121 5y agoSo, if someone is celebrating Hitler, and 100,000 people "love" it, you don't think you should be allowed to block those toxic people? Hey, I get they need, help, but many of them, if not all, are too far gone. The only thing that gives these people power is their voice.
- csee 5y agoPeople have very finite bandwidth. You already suppress voices by consciously deciding not to follow them. This tool just improves curation effectiveness.
- mjmsmith 5y agoHow is your expression suppressed? Free speech doesn’t mean I’m obliged to listen to you.
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- ok123456 5y agoThere have been tools like this in the past (e.g, ggautoblocker). All they do is make a social network even more broken.
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- bArray 5y agoAs for who is using Twitter [1]: > the Twitterverse tends to skew younger and more Democratic than the general public. It also notes that the activity on Twitter is dominated by a small percentage — most users rarely tweet, while the most prolific 10 percent are responsible for 80 percent of tweets from U.S. adults. > Pew says only around 22 percent of American adults today use Twitter, and they are representative of the broader population in some ways, but not in others. Of an estimated 22% of US adults, 10% of those are generating 80% of the content. You're in a bubble of 2.2% of US adults (biased towards young Democrats), and then you want to block a significant number of those people too. I suggest bursting this bubble. It's giving you a highly warped and unhealthy perspective of the world. [1] https://techcrunch.com/2019/04/24/pew-u-s-adult-twitter-users-tend-to-be-younger-more-democratic-10-create-80-of-tweets/?guccounter=1 https://techcrunch.com/2019/04/24/pew-u-s-adult-twitter-user...
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- PedroBatista 5y agoI think there’s value to extract that data and then send drones to kill every single one. Maybe an enterprise feature where our big data cluster is mined by AI that finds any siblings, offspring etc and based on their score either terminates them or sends them to our re-education island. An extra revenue stream could be to film the whole thing and sell it to Netflix.
- JetAlone 5y agoKill drones? Social credit scores? Re-education island? What are you crazy? The status quo works fine. People you don't like (and, bonus, the ones you do, too) stay indoors addicted to bad dopamine cycles. You don't sell footage of their incarceration to netflix - their incarceration is _watching_ netflix. It's also their re-education. It's robotic enough, it (eventually) kills them off, it's already here, and it's already profitable. You don't have to bother processing their next of kin's data either, because by and large they won't be having any, sitting alone, at home, for all their free time. For the foreseeable future, efforts should be focused on improving the efficiency of systems that already exist, not building solutions in search of a problem. Sakes alive, you people are clueless. Leave depop to the professionals.