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It defeats the whole point of blocking as a safety mechanism against stalking, harassment, and mob dog piling behavior. Once again, Elon utterly fails to under
by adastra22 2y ago
It defeats the whole point of blocking as a safety mechanism against stalking, harassment, and mob dog piling behavior.
Once again, Elon utterly fails to understand the service he bought.
- serial_dev 2y agoYeah, right… blocking has never helped with any of those.
- adastra22 2y agoIt has. I speak from personal experience. I have multiple times experienced massive brigading from certain accounts. I blocked them and it stopped. Sure they could still find my tweets and try to instigate something, but in practice they don't. They just whine once about being blocked and move on to some other target.
- hsbauauvhabzb 2y agoIf anything, it highlights that public posts are just that, public.
- SketchySeaBeast 2y agoGiven that I can't easily the post (and certainly can't follow a thread) without a login, is it really public? It's deliberately obfuscated at the very least.
- WithinReason 2y agoYou can see public posts if you just use a private window, that's why they are public.
- arielcostas 2y agoThat was always the case until they started requiring to be logged in to see anything
- nickthegreek 2y agoIts not everything, just almost everything. You don't need to be logged in to view a tweet from a direct link.
- falcolas 2y agoIn some cases yes you do. It depends on how the account is flagged, I'm not sure what the flag is, but valid links can and do return a 404 if you're not logged in. You also can't view replies or context for individual tweets, which makes seeing one tweet next to useless.
- adastra22 2y agoOnly if you create a different account and login with that. The point though is how would you even know to look?
- jdminhbg 2y agoYou know to look because you see a QT or reply and where the original tweet would be, there's a message about how you can't see the tweet. It's been like that forever.