Many extremists use mass blocking to prevent people from reporting their violent threats or writing Community Notes on their lies. This development increases transparency and makes the platform a place where illegal and criminal content can be better exposed.
It's always been very easy to read somebody's tweets even if they blocked you, you simply can't have something that's publicly visible and also stop specific people from seeing it. The only downside to this is that a lot of nasty activists will be making their accounts private now.
I don't see a downside to activists making their accounts private.
It might make people who are quick to anger understand what public and private mean, and that you can't act like an asshole to everyone around you when your feelings get hurt, and expect not to be called on it.
It also might start to chisel a tiny dent in activists bubble and make them realize that a public persona is how they're known, and if they want people to think they're relatively normal, they'll have to act that way, or go private so they can still be immature babies.
But I don't expect either of these things to take root for a good few years, if at all.
I just wish they would hurry up and roll out this feature on web. It's always been stupid to prevent blocked people seeing the blocker's account, especially as it is legitimate to have multiple accounts on Twitter so you can just read from an account with a different use case.
I hope Elon has pre approval from the big tech monopolies like apple and google who have decided to kill businesses for far less (see gab’s dissenter app)
Probably the most concerning thing about the Twitter TOS changes is not being able to opt out of AI training. I've seen several Japanese artists going to Bluesky in protest, so it's not just leftist freaks crying about blocking the chuds. Elon is determined to monetize his retarded AI, Grok, using everyone else's content.
My opinion is that this is how blocking should work unless you make it so that an account is required to view your posts, in which case blocking should hide your posts from whoever is blocked.
Oh noes, now blocked people can still read your stupid posts without having to use a burner account after your le epic clapback.
https://x.com/MrAndyNgo/status/1846685897154027749
It's always been very easy to read somebody's tweets even if they blocked you, you simply can't have something that's publicly visible and also stop specific people from seeing it. The only downside to this is that a lot of nasty activists will be making their accounts private now.
I keep my account on private because I only use it for following artists and liking art, and fucking weirdos keep trying to follow me for some reason.
Thereby destroying their reach. LOL
I don't see a downside to activists making their accounts private.
It might make people who are quick to anger understand what public and private mean, and that you can't act like an asshole to everyone around you when your feelings get hurt, and expect not to be called on it.
It also might start to chisel a tiny dent in activists bubble and make them realize that a public persona is how they're known, and if they want people to think they're relatively normal, they'll have to act that way, or go private so they can still be immature babies.
But I don't expect either of these things to take root for a good few years, if at all.
This is quite funny. They always could see your posts by simply logging out, using a different browser, or opening private mode.
If a post is public does it not mean I can see the post without an account?
Yes, and people are FREAKING OUT at me on Twitter tonight for pointing that out.
I just wish they would hurry up and roll out this feature on web. It's always been stupid to prevent blocked people seeing the blocker's account, especially as it is legitimate to have multiple accounts on Twitter so you can just read from an account with a different use case.
I thought they changed this long ago and then reversed the changes?
but i don't want to see all the trannies i've blocked.
You won't. They will be able to see your tweets though.
i'll have to start appending ttd to the end of every tweet like i'm cato the elder or something
I hope Elon has pre approval from the big tech monopolies like apple and google who have decided to kill businesses for far less (see gab’s dissenter app)
Probably the most concerning thing about the Twitter TOS changes is not being able to opt out of AI training. I've seen several Japanese artists going to Bluesky in protest, so it's not just leftist freaks crying about blocking the chuds. Elon is determined to monetize his retarded AI, Grok, using everyone else's content.
My opinion is that this is how blocking should work unless you make it so that an account is required to view your posts, in which case blocking should hide your posts from whoever is blocked.