Twitter limits blocking: they can see your tweets now

Originally published at: Twitter limits blocking: they can see your tweets now - Boing Boing

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As Elon Musk probably said, “Private speech is not truly freeze peach.”

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In other news about Elon’s Nazi bar…

That’s down from one-million actions taken in H2 2021, right before he bought the company.

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In case there’s still anyone here on twitter, now is a good time to delete your account and leave.

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Twitter tried this years ago and rolled back in hours. How long will this attempt last?

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Some might even call them weird.
Weird GIF

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Stop complaining about Twitter and just delete your account. Is that simple. I did it one year ago, and now I live without hate, without douche comments, without having to read Musk by force. There is no value in Twitter anymore. Just stupid discussions.

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Because Elon Musk “open sourced” the algorithm you can actually see some of the code here.

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When he started buying Twitter, the first thing I did was block Musk. I thought that sooner or later he would override blocks, at least for himself, and that would be the time to leave.

He managed to find other ways to make it impossible to stay before then.

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the best way to block people on twitter is to uninstall the app.

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I did that myself the day before he took possession of his new acquisition. However just because I don’t frequent the Nazi bar in my town doesn’t mean I don’t want to keep an eye on it. I don’t see these articles as “I hate this thing I’m using” so much as “The Nazi bar continues to have a policy of letting patron’s set the booths on fire, and other patrons can still put up protective Nomex covers, but the bar is investigating ways the fire starters can damage the other patrons anyway.”

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Indeed. There’s been reports of bots or other miscreants taking over inactive or deleted accounts to do shady things.

I have an account, and I’ll pop in every once in a while to keep it active, but I don’t actively post or interact with it in any way.

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I set my account to private before “leaving” but didn’t delete (and I still get notifs). I’m sad iIhad to leave my fannish community there but nearly everyone from my closest group chat made the transition to a different space. They’re mostly still on twitter for fan things but I just couldn’t stomach it anymore.

Still really missing the JPN fan artists for some of my niche interests, though. That sounds like a small thing but to me, it’s not.

I do feel that a lot of people who say “just leave twitter!” are assuming that twitter users are just partaking in public political discourse. But I and my friends are/were there to participate in long term fannish associations, some of which go back as far as usenet in the 90s.

Leaving was very costly to me in my social and creative life. I’m on Bluesky now and it’s getting pretty good there but there’s a long way to go to rebuild connections and communities.

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Do It Conan Obrien GIF by Team Coco

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Evergreen statement.

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Yo thanks for sharing

I’m trying to summon words over this. I mean I knew it existed, but to see the code

edit: and of course the point of the article. Embarrasing to the extreme

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And if you know how - put Twitter on a block list on your Internet router or Pi-Hole. That way you can’t even see posts when they’re included on Web pages by journalists who are to addicted to the platform because their fellow journalists are on Twitter.

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I mainly block people i dont want following me, Every 2 or 3 days another naked lady account who follows 8k people and is followed by 600 other naked lady accounts will follow me and i will block them, none have nay tweets and all have links in their bio off twitter…

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