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Hiding your posts from abusers is a legitimate use case because most people (emphasis on most) won't bother to go on private browsing every day just to be annoy
by h1fra 2y ago
Hiding your posts from abusers is a legitimate use case because most people (emphasis on most) won't bother to go on private browsing every day just to be annoying.
- jdminhbg 2y agoThey still have to go on private browsing to be annoying, because blocking still prevents interacting with you.
- CydeWeys 2y agoPrivate browsing doesn't work because Twitter basically requires users to be logged in to see anything. So it really requires having a separate burner Twitter account you'd use to follow people who've blocked you on your main. It's a decent bit of extra effort that also requires a second phone number at this point.
- hakanderyal 2y agoYou can open more than 1 account with a single phone number.
- JoshTriplett 2y agoIdeally blocking an account should block every account sharing that phone number (though it shouldn't tell you about the other accounts being blocked, since that would deanonymize which accounts share a phone number).
- bitcharmer 2y agoI don't understand. Having someone blocked prevents them from interacting with you, no? So what harassment are you referring to? Also, most of the time blocking is being done by people who spew hateful or misinforming content and then immediately go private the moment they get called out. This happens every day. This is a good change
- bitshiftfaced 2y agoThere's an argument here that the previous blocking behavior might give users a false sense of security. In reality, you should not post any information publicly that you wouldn't want someone in particular to read, even if you've blocked that person.
- arp242 2y agoI don't think anyone was ever confused about that. It's about choosing who you interact with and who interacts with you, same in many other areas in life.
- unclad5968 2y agoIf you've blocked them, I'd assume they can't interact with you.