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I do not side with the person who has been blocked, but it is very obvious to me that nothing in the world would prevent them from seeing my public posts
by bugtodiffer 2y ago
I do not side with the person who has been blocked, but it is very obvious to me that nothing in the world would prevent them from seeing my public posts
- isodev 2y agoWhy? For me it's the opposite. "Public" is a label for a specific type of audience - everyone with access to my feed/timeline (as opposed to a subset like friends, followers etc). If I block someone, they no longer have access to my timeline.
- franciscop 2y agoIn twitter "public" is not a label for a specific type of audience, it's the name of common use of a work being public/generally shared with the world. The feed/timeline you are referring sounds awfully similar to Facebook/Instagram/etc which are notorious for being walled gardens where what you say it's true.
- isodev 2y agoI wasn't thinking of Meta's products, just how social networks are supposed to work. Leon trying to tweak things is just not acceptable (not to mention dangerous... blocking is there for a reason).
- franciscop 2y agoWho is Leon? Twitter was from the beginning a "micro-publishing platform", more akin to a newspapper with subscribers than to other social networks like Facebook.
- bugtodiffer 2y agoOkay, but you are aware that "public" means everyone? e.g. the blocked persons friend or frankly second account? What you want is a list of friends that you share your posts too, but then you wouldn't need social media if you weren't talking to strangers. > If I block someone, they no longer have access to my timeline. Yeah and I instantly think "what if they create a new account" and your whole protection instantly fails. Blocking is barely good enough so famous accounts dont publicly mock you with all of their followers.